For example, the most obvious thing is the contrast between the clean vocals and the harsh vocals. That’s something that you can hear in the music. That’s what the Sphinx is: you’ve got the very noble face and the wings, but you’ve also got the fangs and the animal legs - it’s a contrast.
It’s very difficult to make some space in my down-to-earth life for this thing, and I try to find a harmony with my down-to-earth self, with all the darkness and the anxiety that comes with it, and the side of me that always wants to reach the higher side. As I said, I had this spiritual experience when I was younger and it’s always made me feel a little bit disconnected, like an outsider. It’s very cliché, but it’s the battle between the light and the darkness and everything that’s in-between, all the different shades. The goal is to find the harmony between my higher, otherworldly spiritual side and my more down-to-earth, anxious, angry side. That’s a part of my journey at this point: I need to accept myself better and I need to face these demons if I want to grow in my life, if I want to reach a higher step. I think I tried to escape my demons for a while, and lately they grew so much that there was no way to deny them anymore because I started to write these songs, I realized that they had a lot of anger and a lot of darkness, in a way. What a spiritual journey is is mostly accepting yourself for who you are, exactly who you are without trying to hide anything or to seem like a happier person than you are. I can’t explain why, but it’s a need as strong as any other instinctive need that our bodies have, and I just can’t live without it. That’s how I had this “instinct” word coming to me, because I realized that spirituality became instinctive for me, something I need in my life. I think I kind of lost touch with myself, and I had lost touch with this side of me, and I really missed it and felt very down. During the last tour for Kodama, we were working like crazy. Spirituality has been a very big part of my life. I lived through a sort of special experience when I was a kid, something very spiritual that left a big mark on me that’s why I decided to create Alcest when I was a teenager, to be able to speak about all of this. It’s almost like a concept record about my spiritual journey that I’ve had since I was a kid. We had very high expectations and we worked with someone we know very well, he’s a friend of ours. Because we were confident in the songs, but how that’s going to translate into a proper recording, you can never really know. It was really long, everything took ages because I think everyone in the band, and a lot of our fans really liked the sound of Kodama, and that kind of put some pressure on us, you know? Pressure to do something that sounded really good. A lot of bands have cursed recordings, and I hope we won’t do something worse than that, because I guess we would lose our minds a little. Everything took more time than usual, it was one of these cursed situations. And we were not completely, completely ready we still had some things to figure out, so that wasn’t a great thing. We were kind of pushed to go into the studio, because there was a deadline to respect for the dates we had booked to record.
But we went through a lot of troubles and we made our lives very complicated from the beginning. In the positive, I could say how the record sounded in the end, because in the end we were very happy. I would say it was mostly challenging moments.
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