Le Moderniste – L’Acéphale (Album – Le Moderniste)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Ambient, Cinematic, Industrial.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Laurent Delogne has been active for more than ten years under the moniker of Le Moderniste. Five years after his last full length album he strikes back with a self-released opus which has been announced as being ‘the perfect soundtrack to celebrate the end of everything!’
Content: Le Moderniste has seriously evolved in influences unleashing a pure Cinematic opus. The composition features an impressive arsenal of ‘good-old’ Industrial sound treatments which are also coming through in the slow rhythm. Spooky whispering vocals and -samplings both inject an extra creepy touch to the work.
+ + + : Le Moderniste no longer stands for merciless Power-Noise but strikes back with a poignant and intimate composition. This work sounds obscure and reminds me of distant times when Industrial- and Dark-Ambient music were more connected. There’re several brilliant pieces featured which are mainly excelling in anguished atmospheres.
– – – : I would have liked to hear a few cuts a bit more extended.
Conclusion: Let’s wait to see if “L’Acéphale” is announcing a new era and sound direction for this Belgian project but I’m definitely convinced it might be the start of a further renowned career in a different genre.
Best songs: “Incoming Light”, “Channeling”, “Morbid Intent”, “End It All”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/lemoderniste
About Le Moderniste
Le Moderniste is the project of Belgian musician Laurent Delogne, who has worked under the name for more than a decade in power noise, rhythmic noise and death industrial.
Side-Line reviewed the album “Desistere Mortem Timere“, released on CD by the German label Hands in 2016. Delogne also runs the experimental duo Kaibun with Marie Hubart, which he discussed with Side-Line in 2017.
“L’acephale” was released on 20 March 2022 through Modern Tinnitus Theory, a Belgian noise label whose catalogue also carries Kaibun titles. All instruments on the album are credited to Le Moderniste. The nine tracks are “Euthanasia”, “End it all”, “Morbid intent”, “Channeling”, “Lament”, “Angoisse et delices”, “Incoming light”, “Womb of sorrow” and “Empty words”.
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