Brooklyn Vegan, inspired by the latest Hum album, has put together a list of 28 essential songs from the crossover between shoegaze and heavier genres of music like punk, metal, post-hardcore, and grunge. It goes from songs that helped sew the seeds of the genre like Failure and Shiner, to the more recent bands who took this sound and turned it into something more prominent than ever, like Alcest, Torche, and Holy Fawn.

"'Spiritual Instinct' cracks Alcest’s form wide open and successfully goes in all kinds of new directions without being a drastic departure like 'Shelter' was. And that’s even better" - Brooklyn Vegan writes about the French blackgazers' new album. Other critics like it too: "A personal experience to rebuild, restructure and better" - Sonic Perspectives; "To return and release […]

Influential French post-metalers Alcest have shared new single, a six-minute stunner 'Protection', with a video to go with it (watch below). It announces band's sixth album, 'Spiritual Instinct', out in October.