Alcest Kodama (Deluxe Edition) [Digipack CD]

Amazing deluxe edition in a very special digipak format, also featuring a die-cut sleeve and booklet, of “Kodama”, the fifth studio album by French gods Alcest, a record that marked the perfect reunion between the band’s more ethereal and melodic side and the intensity of their black metal roots, resulting in one of the most balanced and widely celebrated releases of their career. Inspired by Japanese folklore and aesthetics, the album brings back sharper guitar work and rasped vocals without sacrificing the emotional and atmospheric sensitivity developed on albums such as “Shelter” and “Les voyages de l’âme”. Throughout its compositions, Alcest alternate moments of luminous beauty with surges of restrained power, creating an enveloping and deeply evocative sonic flow. With “Kodama”, the band delivered an inspired and coherent return, further consolidating their identity and reaffirming their status as one of the key names in blackgaze and contemporary atmospheric metal.