Line #13 YMMV/Alcest


1	* {{Adorkable}}: ''Neige''. Very much due to his very shy but very well mattered behavior and NiceGuy attitude. He's also notably known for being a big dork and fanboy for anything Japanese, especially anime.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: The album covers for ''Écailles de lune'' and ''Les Voyages de l'âme.'' Helps they were done by close friend/acquaintance Fursy Teyssier, who also worked with him on Music/{{Amesoeurs}}.
3	** ''Kodama'' also features a beautiful cover design by the French duo Førtifem, reminiscent of the art of Creator/TakatoYamamoto. The additional artwork for the individual tracks included with the pre-order release is also exquisite.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Every single album''.
5	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: "Abysses" off of ''Écailles de lune'' is a weird dark-like ambient piece that feels unfit on an album of blackgaze atmosphere. Some people often believe Neige only allowed this song in as a favor for Fursy.
6	* BrokenBase: Somewhat with ''Shelter''. The album pretty much ignores every element of black metal and is basically full fledged {{Shoegaze}}[=/=]Dream Pop. A majority (even of those that love hard black metal) seem to consider it a brilliant album, but a small VocalMinority see it as inferior to, say, ''Écailles de lune''.
7	** Which version of ''Le secret'' is better? The 2005 version or the 2011 version?
8	* CreatorWorship: ''Neige''. Similar to [[Music/StevenWilson another musician]], Neige is very well respected in the metal community, due to the fact he has a wide range of music going back and forth. There's also the fact that he comes off as a very well meaning down-to-earth guy who's also a geek for anime and Japanese culture. It's also one of the reasons the below-mentioned NeverLiveItDown moment infuriates fans when people (especially in current PC culture) bring it up despite Neige growing as a person from the experience and bettering himself, especially when unlike certain black metal artists who attempt to avoid the topic, Neige admits his mistake and has repeatedly apologized for it.
9	* EpicRiff: "Percées de lumière.", "Kodama", "Eclosion", and "Shelter", just to name a few.
10	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Live members Zero and ''especially'' Indria Saray are well liked by fans, Zero for providing amazing backing vocals (he even performed ''an entire show'' when Neige's voice was strained) and Indria for his very quiet nature. People also tend to point out Indria has a much closer partnership with Neige than he had with Famine of Peste Noire (who allegedly had Indria in the band just to avoid allegations of racism).
11	* EvenBetterSequel: ''Écailles de lune'' to ''Souvenirs d'un autre monde'', due to its increased prevalence of HarshVocals and generally stronger songwriting.
12	** ''Kodama'' is generally considered this to ''Shelter'', retaining the best qualities of that album while bringing back more elements of black metal.
13	* FandomRivalry: Alcest VS Music/{{Amesoeurs}}, as well as Alcest VS Peste Noire due to Neige and Winterhalter's former involvement in that band and the inflammatory comments Famine has made about them in interviews.
14	* GatewaySeries: They can serve as this to metal for some people.
15	* GrowingTheBeard: Their first demo was pretty standard black metal. ''Le Secret'' was where they began developing the sound they became famous for.
16	* MemeticMutation: Jokes about Neige being a weeaboo are frequent in the fandom.
17	** Calling Neige a fairy is also common due to his original belief that Alcest's music was based off of a fairy world he saw as a child in his dreams.
18	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: Neige's clean vocals. By extension of songs, "Solar Song" and "Beings of Light", or Neige's guitar playing.
19	* NeverLiveItDown: A very VocalMinority will always bring up Neige's involvement with Peste Noire, due to the former's overt far right philosophy and frontman Famine's controversial antics in the French black metal scene. Despite the fact Neige ''never'' contributed to the band's far right-wing lyrics[[note]]He only wrote the song "La césarienne" off of ''Folkfuck Folie'' and even then the song is a graphic gory song about a botched pregnancy that'd fit right out of Music/CannibalCorpse! And even then, the only ''vocal'' contibution to Peste Noire was "Dueil angoisseus (Christine de Pisan, 1362–1431)", which is a poem written by the aforementioned de Pisan.[[/note]] and even admitting he was ashamed of his time involved in the band, detractors will still accuse Neige of "supporting" far right-wing views even though Neige has shown disapproval of racism, Nazism, and has barely shown his political views, with the exception of Alcest as a band joining the #blackouttuesday to protest against police brutality in the US.
20	* OneSceneWonder: [[Music/{{Slowdive}} Neil Halstead]] in "Away". His and Neige's vocals ''blend'' beautifully and he only appears as a featured guest.
21	** Billie Lindahl on "Into the Waves". It's her only song on lead vocals, but she manages to give one of the most beautiful and emotive performances in the band's discography.
22	* SignatureSong: "Écailles de lune Part 1", "Autre temps", or "Délivrance."
23	* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: Everything, especially with ''Shelter''; you could ''sleep to that album''.
24	* TearJerker: "Sur l'océan couleur de fer", the last song on ''Écailles de lune.''
25	** "Away", "Into the Waves", and possibly "Délivrance" from ''Shelter'' (though the latter is more like TearsOfJoy).
26	** "Untouched" and "Onyx" on ''Kodama''.
27	** "Circe Poisoning the Sea" from the Les Discrets split.
28	** Both versions of "Le secret", but special mention to the 2011 version which comes off as a BittersweetEnding compared to the straight-up DownerEnding of the 2005 version.
29	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Happens ''a lot'' with this band: When ''Écailles de lune'' hit, fans were pretty split due to the heavy usage of black metal elements mixed with shoegaze (The re-release of ''Le Secret'' with re-recordings didn't help the matter), all while the reaction to ''Les voyages de l'âme'' was mixed due to being ''more'' shoegaze-like and less black metal influenced. On the other hand, this has mostly passed by now and the reaction to both albums is pretty positive overall.
30	** ''Shelter'' is this for some fans, although it should be noted that this is mainly a VocalMinority.
31	* ViewerGenderConfusion: Some listeners thought there were female vocals on ''Le Secret''. There aren't. Neige performs all vocals on the album.

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