Hearing this song for the first time live really was for me a deliverance... after struggling with depression for two years, I was finally seeing the bright side of life... and this was the very moment I realised it.
I cannot even imagine and I’ve seen a few extra good shows (Cause I’m old lol) but this would be an interesting mix of catharsis and spiritual experience… thankfully we have musician like this bringing their brand of light and dark to the fore… it’s certainly a “Mecca” of musical sorts… I’d be interested to see Schammash live… I saw Pink Floyd play the “Division Bell” live in the hugest stadium I’ve ever seen… that was pretty flooring. How true too. Music is a fascinating aspect of life… people use it for all manner of reasons… a lot of people who hear this stuff… they pick on my “spiritual metal” they call it. I sighed and suggested it was certainly “thinking man’s music” (or woman) but I wouldn’t pigeonhole the depths of what’s happening here - PigeonToes! Lol godspeed
This song is certainly a "Shelter"... It's a safehouse from this whole world. Hit me hard for the first time heard live... Uncomparable to nothing I've ever experienced during a live show.
I don't really understand why so many people are so harsh to Neige about this album. I don't get why people are trying to tell musicians what kind of music they should make. If most musicians started to do what people want and expect them to do instead of what they have in their hearts we would have a ton of forced shitty music on the market which no one would really be happy with neither we nor the musicians. So please think about it when you are going to say that "Alcest turned bad" or "Neige should have done something like his previous albums". I think we shouldn't tell artists what they are supposed to do if music they do comes from their heart.
I think it's because it's so different from their other albums and fans weren't expecting it. People were afraid that they mellowed too much and got afraid. I've recently had the experience where one of my favorite bands put out a weird album, and I'm sad, so I get it. Music can be such a personal thing for many people. Neige said that they were listening to "too much Slow Dive" during the making of this album in an interview. So yeah, it was different from their previous material, with the exception of this song, I feel, which is right up there with Sur l'océan couleur de fer, if not even better. I personally feel that the real tragedy is Alcest listening to fan outcry too much with Spiritual Instinct and making a dumpster fire successor to Kodama, (which was just a perfect damn album, imo), alienating all the fans since just after their black metal days. It's underproduced, undermixed, and just plain crappy comparatively. (Now everybody go ahead and yell at me for my review of spiritual instinct, and I know you will because this is the internet after all).
@@beavisemojihere i really like sapphire but the rest of that album i only heard once. i’m still new to alcest but i’ve been loving their older stuff, i waited until i dropped 2 tabs lsd to listen to kodama…wow
The middle of the night. Was on the way to bed at a festival. Heard this band playing from the campground. Turned backwards immediately. Absolutely amazing setlist. When this song came, I found myself crying sooo badly. Took a straight way to my heart. 😌
I went to a show where Alcest were the support *for* Opeth. This was the Pale Communion tour and Shelter was Alcest's newest album. I'm pretty sure both those songs did get played that night :D
To me, Alcest always had a kind of a "nighttime" atmosphere to it, while this album definitely feels "solar". It sounds like the soundtrack to a rising sun, rather than to a moonlight. Maybe not as mysterious as their other works, but it's somehow filled with hope and determination.
This reminds me of Anathema, but still in a very Alcest way, with their own trademark. Haters gonna hate, Alcest is not the first heavier band who chose to make more orchestral and heartfelt epic music.
Listening to this song is like ascending from a dark sea and rising higher and higher, warmer and brighter until I'm flying into a sun full of light, warmth, and love, so much my eyes water. Truly fantastic and touched by the divine.
3:05 - 6:35 perfect representation of divinity in sonic form. Perfection is unachievable but this is as close as anyone will ever get musically. Purely cathartic
I'm glad Alcest did shelter, it was an experiment, and they came back even harder with Kodama, and Spiritual Instinct is gonna be on the same level as Kodama so we should all be grateful
The reverb and mild distortion are, as if we are walking in the gardens on a chilly winter night holding the warm hands of our special one. Such a touching track!
I remember the first time I heard it when it came out. It was a pretty stagnant phase of life for me, yet I just sat on my bed with the track on loop and I was crying uncontrollably. Since the years, this song rouses many emotions, but now I think this just makes me feel hopeful in any circumstance.
I don't give a shit what anyone says about Alcest nowadays, everything they have released has been beautiful in its own way. They could have done another Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze album but instead they went this route and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. This is beautiful.
I recently had to say "farewell" to my beautiful 17 year old spirit cat Lysander and this is the song I played during our last moments together... It was a terrible time but I like to think that her voice and my voice comforted him as he wandered off onto his new path... Thank you Alcest for helping me through the worst time...
The one song that can always take me home back to my childhood, no matter where I am in the world. For these 10 minutes, I'm 10 years old again and times are a lot simpler...
The song is perfect as it is, and it's the most beautiful song i've ever heard in my whole life... anyone saying it lacks heaviness doesn't get what the music is about. Just let yourself be embraced by it, feel it and enjoy it. This song is perfection.
There's no greater beauty than the arpeggios with the sweet voice of Neige that create environments out of this world. That's the true beauty found in the unexplained.
This somehow reminds me sooo much of Decoherence by Insomnium. So smoothing and relaxing and still a song that makes me hope and doubt and.. feel. Wow. What an amazing band Alcest is.
Cada vez que escucho esta canción recuerdo a alguien muy especial que me ayudó a sanar muchas cosas de mi pasado, nuestros caminos se separaron pero donde quiera que esté siempre le deseo mucho amor en su andar. La música transmuta de maneras maravillosas.
Sempre viajo em um mundo paralelo quando ouço essa música, é diferente de tudo, nem meus ansiolíticos me deixam tão calmo. Obrigado, Neige, por não ser só mais uma banda de black metal e nos mostrar todo o seu talento. Saudações do Brasil.
Since finding this song a few days ago I must have listened to it a million times by now, from moments I've been out walking lost in the world around me with my camera and this music playing lost in my own world, to moments in bed when I feel and hear the music more, no matter where I hear it, each time it hits those points, it is very very beautiful.
Neige ❤️ thank you for letting us experience all these intense emotions. What a great musician you are. I cried during this song when you played it live as the last track. It was unbelievably beautiful, standing there with my best friend and we were just bawling our eyes out in front row. Merci beaucoup pour ta musique!! ❤️
Easily one of the most incredible songs I have ever heard. Just absolutely gorgeous. I cannot ever get enough of it. So much depth, power and magic in those guitar notes and Neige's incredible vocals...perfection.
The song is gorgeous, eerie and candid but i hope the album has some heaviness to it, to balance, to give this light the matching darkness to make us cherish it. Like those moments in their previous albums when after all the blast-beating and screaming the light always came to crown it all.
this is incredible. I'm completely in love with this one. I can't really wait for the album, i don't care about heaviness or whatever, this song shines.
I'm seeing Anathema and Alcest in October, and Neige said they'll play Kodama and this song, I can't wait😭💗 (Edit: NEVER CRIED THAT FUCKING MUCH IT WAS AMAZING)
As i said before,crying to this song isn't optional.
This is the only song that makes me cry
Amen
@@jawa2410 We are a few months later, are you ok ?
Hearing this song for the first time live really was for me a deliverance... after struggling with depression for two years, I was finally seeing the bright side of life... and this was the very moment I realised it.
The healing force of music, right?
Noob
@@abpast5319 piss off. Let people connect and rejoice with music.
I cannot even imagine and I’ve seen a few extra good shows (Cause I’m old lol) but this would be an interesting mix of catharsis and spiritual experience… thankfully we have musician like this bringing their brand of light and dark to the fore… it’s certainly a “Mecca” of musical sorts…
I’d be interested to see Schammash live… I saw Pink Floyd play the “Division Bell” live in the hugest stadium I’ve ever seen… that was pretty flooring. How true too. Music is a fascinating aspect of life… people use it for all manner of reasons… a lot of people who hear this stuff… they pick on my “spiritual metal” they call it. I sighed and suggested it was certainly “thinking man’s music” (or woman) but I wouldn’t pigeonhole the depths of what’s happening here - PigeonToes! Lol godspeed
This song is certainly a "Shelter"... It's a safehouse from this whole world. Hit me hard for the first time heard live... Uncomparable to nothing I've ever experienced during a live show.
When I listen to this song, I feel like no matter what I'm going through in life, I'm going to be okay.
Alcest as a band are exactly this to me.
I listened to this song a lot while traveling around Iceland. It was perfect.
any sigur ros too ?
You just painted my dream!
Holly shit me too! This album is all that played gile I drove the ring road
fuckkk!! you literally lived my dream
Nathan Watts çz
Feels like your chest its openning and pure light comes out
one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard. this is fucking briliant.
The most ethereal song I've ever heard, It's like from another world
Everything Alcest has ever released is from another world
Totally!
I don't really understand why so many people are so harsh to Neige about this album. I don't get why people are trying to tell musicians what kind of music they should make. If most musicians started to do what people want and expect them to do instead of what they have in their hearts we would have a ton of forced shitty music on the market which no one would really be happy with neither we nor the musicians. So please think about it when you are going to say that "Alcest turned bad" or "Neige should have done something like his previous albums". I think we shouldn't tell artists what they are supposed to do if music they do comes from their heart.
It's my least favourite alcest album but even so it beats so many bands"best albums".
this one is not only Alcest's masterwork, but the best album in the whole history of music
Bien dit ❤️
I think it's because it's so different from their other albums and fans weren't expecting it. People were afraid that they mellowed too much and got afraid. I've recently had the experience where one of my favorite bands put out a weird album, and I'm sad, so I get it. Music can be such a personal thing for many people. Neige said that they were listening to "too much Slow Dive" during the making of this album in an interview. So yeah, it was different from their previous material, with the exception of this song, I feel, which is right up there with Sur l'océan couleur de fer, if not even better.
I personally feel that the real tragedy is Alcest listening to fan outcry too much with Spiritual Instinct and making a dumpster fire successor to Kodama, (which was just a perfect damn album, imo), alienating all the fans since just after their black metal days. It's underproduced, undermixed, and just plain crappy comparatively. (Now everybody go ahead and yell at me for my review of spiritual instinct, and I know you will because this is the internet after all).
@@beavisemojihere i really like sapphire but the rest of that album i only heard once. i’m still new to alcest but i’ve been loving their older stuff, i waited until i dropped 2 tabs lsd to listen to kodama…wow
Was lucky enough to witness this Live whilst on Acid, Best gig ever.
imnotwatchin Jesus Christ. Tell me more!
@@Saif0711 😄
So unbelievably beautiful piece of music...
The middle of the night. Was on the way to bed at a festival. Heard this band playing from the campground. Turned backwards immediately. Absolutely amazing setlist. When this song came, I found myself crying sooo badly. Took a straight way to my heart. 😌
Imagine Opeth and Alcest playing their respective versions of Deliverance one after the other :-)
I went to a show where Alcest were the support *for* Opeth. This was the Pale Communion tour and Shelter was Alcest's newest album. I'm pretty sure both those songs did get played that night :D
@@SodaPolycarbonate OMG I WOULD DIE
How can anyone dislike this? This is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard.
mindless humans exist ^^
Easy Trve kvlt Black Metal fans from hell 666 lol
@@civi4270haha well ..can't say you're wrong there
One of the best alcest song...when i will die i want someone play this song to my funeral
To me, Alcest always had a kind of a "nighttime" atmosphere to it, while this album definitely feels "solar". It sounds like the soundtrack to a rising sun, rather than to a moonlight. Maybe not as mysterious as their other works, but it's somehow filled with hope and determination.
well observed - you are right
This reminds me of Anathema, but still in a very Alcest way, with their own trademark. Haters gonna hate, Alcest is not the first heavier band who chose to make more orchestral and heartfelt epic music.
Listening to this song is like ascending from a dark sea and rising higher and higher, warmer and brighter until I'm flying into a sun full of light, warmth, and love, so much my eyes water. Truly fantastic and touched by the divine.
Changed my life when I first heard it a couple years ago. Wow...
I am just hearing this for the first time today. I am blown away.
This song literally saved me, not even using an euphemism.
Seeing them live was a revelation, changed my life too, one of the best gigs i atended to ever...
@@shanepereira5370 Drama queen
@@ballaking1000 *King.
Also how badass must you be to be able to make fun at other's feelings, wow, good for you.
How is it possible that such beauty can exist... That it overwhelms me
3:05 - 6:35 perfect representation of divinity in sonic form. Perfection is unachievable but this is as close as anyone will ever get musically. Purely cathartic
I'm glad Alcest did shelter, it was an experiment, and they came back even harder with Kodama, and Spiritual Instinct is gonna be on the same level as Kodama so we should all be grateful
This song hurts me everytime ..
so beautiful...
Perfect ending to an amazing concert. No matter if you like "Shelter" or not you can't tell me that this song isn't pure magic.
This song makes me cry a lot! It's amazing and beautiful. Thank you Neige. ❤
You are welcome
This song makes me feel alive 💙
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A true work of art. I love the song
the best on the album, we think
The reverb and mild distortion are, as if we are walking in the gardens on a chilly winter night holding the warm hands of our special one. Such a touching track!
I remember the first time I heard it when it came out. It was a pretty stagnant phase of life for me, yet I just sat on my bed with the track on loop and I was crying uncontrollably. Since the years, this song rouses many emotions, but now I think this just makes me feel hopeful in any circumstance.
I don't give a shit what anyone says about Alcest nowadays, everything they have released has been beautiful in its own way. They could have done another Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze album but instead they went this route and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. This is beautiful.
i know right !
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.
Incredible.
I love this song, it's pure magic
I recently had to say "farewell" to my beautiful 17 year old spirit cat Lysander and this is the song I played during our last moments together... It was a terrible time but I like to think that her voice and my voice comforted him as he wandered off onto his new path... Thank you Alcest for helping me through the worst time...
Amo este comentario./ I love this post.
I didnt appreciate this album when it released, but now it is the most important one to me.
My all time favorite.. 6 years and counting
Much love from Iraq 🇮🇶 🤘🏼
thank you! Greetings from Germany
I've got no words to describe how much this song is beautiful.
The one song that can always take me home back to my childhood, no matter where I am in the world. For these 10 minutes, I'm 10 years old again and times are a lot simpler...
No matter how many times I listen to this song, I always end up crying.
it's always been like a child of mine. I love to listen, I bound to listen ❤️
LOVE from BANGLADESH 🇧🇩
Listening to this song while watching the sun set is one of the best feelings in the world.
The song is perfect as it is, and it's the most beautiful song i've ever heard in my whole life... anyone saying it lacks heaviness doesn't get what the music is about. Just let yourself be embraced by it, feel it and enjoy it. This song is perfection.
😭😭
❤ love this song
There's no greater beauty than the arpeggios with the sweet voice of Neige that create environments out of this world. That's the true beauty found in the unexplained.
What a gorgeous way to combine two of the most ethereal genres out there: shoegaze and post-rock.
My life would be nothing without your music...
Absolutely beautiful. I'm crying
+Maria Gabriela Cota ¡Ambos estamos!
Same here. ♡
Maria Gabriela Cota Me too :(
Masterpiece of this album !
and a live standard by now.
@@prophecyBC going to hear them live for the first time in february and i hope this song going to be in the set list 💙
I can't stop listening to it... unbelievable how emotional this song is... unbelievable!
Jaw on the floor, tears in the eyes....I can't really put my feelings into words. All I can say is, never stop writing music.
This song has brought me so much peace. No matter what kind of mood I'm in, I can just listen to this song, and I'm in a different place. Beautiful.
This.. brought tears to my eyes. thank you Alcest for an amazing song
I'd like to die listening this song, it's so beautiful.
The most beautiful thing I ever heard. My wife knows this is my funeral song. Drop dead gorgeous 😍😍😍
2014-2021... much love from turkey❤️
This somehow reminds me sooo much of Decoherence by Insomnium. So smoothing and relaxing and still a song that makes me hope and doubt and.. feel. Wow. What an amazing band Alcest is.
Close your eyes. Rest inside the thoughts of God.
amen
Cada vez que escucho esta canción recuerdo a alguien muy especial que me ayudó a sanar muchas cosas de mi pasado, nuestros caminos se separaron pero donde quiera que esté siempre le deseo mucho amor en su andar. La música transmuta de maneras maravillosas.
I'm sure that many bands in the future will be thankful for this track.
Counted, there is at least 17 "this song has changed my life" comment right here.
if the other albums of alcest are about neige trying to put his spiritual journeys into music, this must be the spiritual journey itself. I love it.
Most epic piece of music I've ever heard. Needs to be in a fantasy movie.
I remember when Alcest played this song live when I saw them last October. I was in a trance. The blue lights and the mist.... *chills
My favourite band - so dreamy and magnificent
thank you!
So fucking WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW ! It helps my head to calm down and removes stress.
much love from Syria ! \m/ :)
حمص =D
Sempre viajo em um mundo paralelo quando ouço essa música, é diferente de tudo, nem meus ansiolíticos me deixam tão calmo. Obrigado, Neige, por não ser só mais uma banda de black metal e nos mostrar todo o seu talento. Saudações do Brasil.
Saudações 🇧🇷🎶
❤ amazing
I *adore* this.
Since finding this song a few days ago I must have listened to it a million times by now, from moments I've been out walking lost in the world around me with my camera and this music playing lost in my own world, to moments in bed when I feel and hear the music more, no matter where I hear it, each time it hits those points, it is very very beautiful.
I can't stop listening to it
I love when musicians have the courage to evolve their music. sorry, but every metal band that i love evolved into something better.
My favorite track of 2013! Oh, how many times i've listened to the live videos on youtube. Finally, the real deal!
Neige ❤️ thank you for letting us experience all these intense emotions. What a great musician you are. I cried during this song when you played it live as the last track. It was unbelievably beautiful, standing there with my best friend and we were just bawling our eyes out in front row. Merci beaucoup pour ta musique!! ❤️
I miss the blast beats, I miss the distortion, I miss the Metal but this is FREAKING AMAZING!
Can't stop listening...
A BEAUTIFUL statement of an ending....I can appreciate every incarnation... please keep doing you...
Easily one of the most incredible songs I have ever heard. Just absolutely gorgeous. I cannot ever get enough of it. So much depth, power and magic in those guitar notes and Neige's incredible vocals...perfection.
Beautiful Music!
One of the best albums till date followed by Kodoma
Wintergasm... A warm touch to a cold desperation ...Greetings
The song is gorgeous, eerie and candid but i hope the album has some heaviness to it, to balance, to give this light the matching darkness to make us cherish it. Like those moments in their previous albums when after all the blast-beating and screaming the light always came to crown it all.
It doesn't.
No more metal parts, Neige said.
hammettful That sucks. :'l
*****
It doesn't, you mean you don't like it
Yoann Gorain
No, it means this album doesn't have metal parts at all.
The ending is epic...love it, i perceived a little sigur ros vibe!
Exactly
How are this band so amazing at making music? Nothing in any of their songs feels out of place, it's just serene.
One of the most beautiful songs I ever heard... makes me feel all sort of things and takes me to another place each and every time...
this is incredible. I'm completely in love with this one. I can't really wait for the album, i don't care about heaviness or whatever, this song shines.
So moving ! can't wait for the album.
+1 ;)
More of this, less Opale on the new album, and I'll be perfectly happy. Beautiful.
This sounds like a soul. Thank you Alcest
you are welcome
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard
C'est de la magie.
Absolument
Love this track...
I love this song you are great Alcest
This music is so absolutely beaultiful that almost make my eyes sweat!
Amazing song, so ethereal and soothing
stunning piece of music
Its heaven like! Nothing I've heard better than this!
Absolutely melodic. What a gift it is to be able to listen to works of art like this.
Everyday I keep finding beautiful stuffs. Nice
I'm seeing Anathema and Alcest in October, and Neige said they'll play Kodama and this song, I can't wait😭💗 (Edit: NEVER CRIED THAT FUCKING MUCH IT WAS AMAZING)
Clorox Bleach this was the perfect song to end their gig
That was one fucking year ago I miss them so much it hurts
That would be a dream matchup
I love this song
Still the best ever from Alcest! No other song calms me as this one does.
The most beautiful song I've ever heard in my life. And believe me, I've heard a lot. Fantastic, epic, incredible - just the best.