Update August 23rd, 2019 09:18 AM:

A video for “Protection” directed by Craig Murray (Mogwai, Blood Red Shoes) has since arrived. Alcest frontman Neige has also commented of the track:

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“‘Protection‘ is the first track I wrote for ‘Spiritual Instinct‘. It’s probably one of our most heavy, spontaneous songs. It is about inner conflict, the tension between the spiritual and darker sides of a person, facing your own anguishes in order to embrace them and then fight them. Like the other tracks on the album, writing it was a very cathartic, healing process for me.”

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Original Story:

Alcest‘s new album “Spiritual Instinct” has been scheduled for an October 25th release on Nuclear Blast for some time now and the band have now seen fit to share some music from it. You can take in the track “Protection” off of the record below: