Les Discrets- “Song for Mountains”
From the album Septembre et ses dernières pensées
Location: 40ish
An excellent track from Les
Discrets' also-excellent 2010 debut. Operating
in the same scene that produced Alcest, Amesouers and Lantlôs, this band fit
rather nicely to that same gazey, semi-metal sound that has been the
biggest development in modern black metal, for good or ill. Les Discrets is headed by the multi-talented
Fursy Tessier, who also provided the fantastic cover art for the album.
Less “metal” than many other bands
in this loose collective (for the other end of the spectrum, Glaciation and Old
Silver Key may appeal as well), Les Discrets make more frequent use of acoustic
guitar, and keep the shrieked vocals to an absolute minimum. The result is a calmer, more contemplative
feel to the album.
Despite its English title, “Song
for Mountains,” like the rest of the album, is sung entirely in French. I find that it is a great example of the
benefits of allowing a singer to perform is his or her native language, as the
comfort and ease with the language and its sounds allows to words to seamlessly
complement the music. My French was
never particularly great and has only rusted in the years since college, but with
a little outside help the translation proves to be as beautiful as expected.
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