For Sauvageoness, playing live is about much more than performing songs. It is catharsis, resistance and transformation all at once. Into the Deep Woods captures that side of Lausanne-based artist Carole Obère’s music in a format that goes well beyond the usual live album.
Recorded in November 2025 at Bunker Paradise in Renens, Switzerland, the project brings music and film together as two parts of the same work. The film was made by Ecklonis Pourpier, while Jack Shirley mixed and mastered the audio at The Atomic Garden. The performance remains almost untouched, with just a few backing vocals and a synth added. Studio perfection is not the point: what matters here is the rawness, spontaneity and physical intensity of the live performance. Even the vinyl follows that handmade, DIY approach: a limited run of 150 copies on marbled eco-vinyl, each with its own unique pattern.
The album draws on post-punk, noise rock, shoegaze, grunge and industrial sounds, moving freely between them. “Bluette” opens with sinuous guitars, ghostly vocals and almost tribal percussion, with echoes of Warpaint’s psychedelia, before erupting into a burst of noise and energy. “RD E|A” recalls Cranes at their darkest, with mechanical rhythms and an unsettling atmosphere, while “MARY” takes Curve’s distorted guitars and electronics into much heavier, more aggressive territory. Here, the vocals barely form words, blending into the instrumentation through wordless cries, exclamations and screams.
“RD Paradise” brings dense, distorted guitars and an insistent rhythm, while “Keep From” leans further towards punk and noise rock, with the repeated word crying setting the anguish of the lyrics against the energy of the music. “Road_ise Cherubin” returns to darker atmospheres and hypnotic rhythms, recalling Siouxsie and the Banshees’ “Voodoo Dolly”, as the guitars gradually build in intensity before dissolving into distortion and feedback.
The lyrics also carry a strong political charge. On “Show Me Your Body”, Sauvageoness takes aim at misogyny, gender stereotypes and patriarchal violence through nervous post-punk, with vocals shifting between singing and spoken word. “mio stars at the end” challenges the pressure to conform, playing on mimicry or die and mimicry or DIY, before closing with an unsettling electronic pulse. Meanwhile, “Rather In Harmony”, which we previously heard in its studio version, explores our relationship with nature and questions the desire for control and domination that prevents us from living in harmony.
The album closes with “RD Indusbeast”, one of its most intense tracks, driven by heavily distorted guitars, relentless percussion and vocals that alternate between singing and screaming. In the end, the instruments fall away, leaving the voice alone to slowly fade out.
Into the Deep Woods is more than just a collection of songs performed live. It is an experimental record in which repetition, noise and fragility become forms of expression and resistance. An unsettling, visceral and deeply personal journey, it shows that for Sauvageoness, music is not about describing emotions, but about experiencing them and emerging transformed.
Listen to Into the Deep Woods in full here.
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