Alcest / Les Discrets

Alcest / Les Discrets
EP by Alcest and Les Discrets
Released November 30, 2009[1]
Genre Shoegazing,[1] post-metal[2]
Length 27:04[2]
Label Prophecy Productions
Alcest chronology

Souvenirs d'un autre monde
(2007)
Alcest / Les Discrets
(2009)
Écailles de Lune
(2010)
Les Discrets chronology
Alcest / Les Discrets
(2009)
Septembre et Ses Dernières Pensées
(2010)

Alcest / Les Discrets (or Les Discrets / Alcest) is a split EP by French shoegazing bands Alcest and Les Discrets, released on November 30, 2009 by Prophecy Productions.

This is the release debut of Les Discrets. Its leader Fursy Teyssier have previously worked with Alcest leader Neige numerous times. It is the first work of drummer Winterhalter featuring Alcest; he would later join Alcest the same year, becoming a member of both bands, before leaving Les Discrets in 2013 to focus on Alcest.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Neige. 

Side one: Alcest
No. Title Length
1. "Percées De Lumière"   6:32
2. "Circe Poisoning the Sea"   3:03
Total length:
9:35

All lyrics written by Audrey Hadorn, all music composed by Fursy Teyssier.

Side two: Les Discrets
No. Title Length
1. "L'Échappée"   4:11
2. "Après l'Ombre"   6:39
3. "Song for Mountains"   6:39
Total length:
17:29

Personnel

Alcest

Les Discrets

Production

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Alcest / Les Discrets – Les Discrets / Alcest [Split] [EP]". Metal Storm. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Les Discrets/ Alcest [2009]". Grim Arts of Melancholy. Retrieved 2012-02-05.