Band: Lantlôs
Album: Neon
Year: 2010
Country: Germany
If you haven't heard this album already, you should, since it's one of the best album of 2010. If not THE best album of 2010, but the year it's not over so I'll try to hold my horses.
Lantlôs is half french and half german, and includes the best of both countries. The french part contributes with atmosphere, emotion, and the almighty touch of Neige. The german part contributes with a rough shell and some small influences from one of the best bands of Germany - Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore. The result is a band that somehow is able to ride the wave of "blackened shoegaze", but I would rather consider this as "shoegazed black metal", or just call it black metal.
This album is fairly short with only 6 tracks, but strong enough to leave an impact. Some songs starts of really jazzy, then turn into an inferno of blasting drums and well written guitar riffs. That maybe doesn't sound as much, but it's intensity vs. it's melancholic calmer parts will leave you in a state of despair and hopelessness. And as if that wasn't enough, the vocals are flawless. Neige's harsh vocals sounds like anxious suffering. And what's even more extraordinary is that he can change it into honeysmoothed singing in "Pulse/Surreal".
Song(s) you should listen to: These Nights Were Ours pretty is without a doubt the best song on the album. It seems to deal with the pestered theme of a wretched lovestory you've heard so many times. But in this song you believe every single word being said. Especially the last sentence, since Neige voice cracks as if someone tore out his heart with their bare hands.
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