Richard G.: In 2007 the first MCD ‘Ruines Humaines’ by Amesoeurs was extremely well received. The beautiful, atmospheric combination of black metallic sounds and emotionally laden new wave/postpunk sounded cold and warm at the same time. The demand and curiosity for new material was immediately immense and steadily grew with each month. At the beginning of 2009 the waiting is finally over and the official self titled debut ‘Amesoeurs’ totally lives up to all expectations!
Main composer Neige (also in Alcest) and friends continue in the direction of the final MCD track ‘Faiblesse des Sens’ (as promised). The black metal influences are more and more backgrounded (yet still very much present!) and Audrey’s clean vocals play a much bigger role. The atmosphere that is created is again tragic, desolate and engulfing at the same time. For almost an hour it is simply a case of dreaming away and feeling along with the French musings and long-stretched introverted thought-processes. The beauty of it all is that in between the Joy Division-esque sounds of agony and unhappiness the (new) disquieting noise influences and violent eruptions of black aggression are all the more impressive, as in ‘Heurt’, ‘Trouble’ or the second part of ‘La Reine Trayeuse’ (look out for the all-crushing, utterly desperate primal scream by Audrey!).
Amesoeurs place themselves with ‘Amesoeurs’ right among the top ranks of melancholic metal masters such as Katatonia or Agalloch. Once again it is proven that you can achieve so much (more) with simple song writing and technical skills, resulting in arguably the most beautiful record that 2009 will see.
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