Autarcie - Apogee. Ivresse. Agonie

One need look no further than Apogée.Ivresse.Agonie to witness the apotheosis of AUTARCIE's uniquely idiosyncratic vision. Uncompromising as ever, the duo's seventh opus summons echoes from the past – hypnogogically so, so comfortingly familiar this approach initially feels - and digs its trench deeper into old Gaelic territory. The soundfield is paradoxically warm, perhaps burning with hatred rather than freezing from ice running through those same veins, but is emblematic of AUTARCIE's quest for the rural, the pre-Industrial, even something approaching the pastoral.