Alcest @ Catch One Los Angeles

If you’ve never heard French Blackgaze band Alcest, you definitely need to do yourself the favor.  Fusing ethereal shoegaze with double-time black metal breakbeats tossed in with slight undertones of 90s post-rock nostalgia, this band takes you places both familiar and as-yet unexplored.

All three bands that played — including opening Los Angeles dark gothwave outfit Glaare and San Francisco doom metal King Woman — were just phenomenal.

Consequently, this was of the best mid-size local shows I’ve seen in a long, long time.