Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

It was always a great challenge: how can I make a dreampop album that's still very Alcest, but not a ripoff - how to keep the core.

You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do something difficult, doing it first for himself. That's my definition of sincerity.

I always tried to make a diverse album in terms of emotions and sounds.

Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.

What excites me is to know I don't have any limits, that it's quite an open project, more open than I thought it could be. To have this freedom to try very different things. I listen to lots of music from every genre.