Band: Les Discrets
Title: Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées
Label: Prophecy Productions
Distribution: Suburban
Release date: 29/03/2010
Review: CD

Fursy Teyssier is a French artist, known as filmmaker (he recently won an award for his short film Tir Nan Og), painter, as well as musician. When it comes to the latter, he is especially known from the project Phest, or his session collaboration with, for example, Amesoeurs and Alcest.

His new solo-project Les Discrets can be considered some mixture of his activities. It is a musical experience, supported by his painting and movie skills. This fusion resulted in a CD with a 56-page booklet digi-pack, consisting of many of his (splendid) painted artworks, as well as that higher mentioned short movie.

When it comes to the first, the musical side of this package, my mind indeed dwells into rather emotional, captivating Prophecy-spheres.
The eerie, hypnotic Post-Rock alike melodic and melancholic Metal tracks come with a Neo-Folk-oriented atmosphere, with lots of acoustics, somewhat misty and fragile, and exhaling a natural, almost sacral musical philosophy. Of course bands as Alcest and Amesoeurs come to mind, yet Les Discrets also dwells within the same mystic regions as, let’s say, Ulver, Katatonia, Autumnblaze, Arcturus, Empyrium or late Manes.
The lyrics on Septembre Et Ses Dernières Pensées (‘September and its last thoughts’) are French, and this goes along with the only negative thing I have to mention about this album: the vocals sometimes bore me. These aren’t that thrilling at all, sometimes much too monotonous. Yet musically Les Discrets do easily reach the level of higher mentioned bands and projects.

Dark Art for open-minded spirits…

xxx/100

Ivan Tibos.