Our hectic lifestyles and rhythms lead us to avoid the subject, but natural, social and political events regularly remind us that the end of humanity is inevitable.

We already know that our sun will go through a red giant phase, which will wipe out our planet once and for all, and that before then, all forms of life will have disappeared. In a few billion years' time, our civilization will come to an end, but some forecasts are even more pessimistic. We can see that humans could well accelerate this process, through their action on the climate or their social and political interactions. Overpopulation, migration, conflict and climatic disasters all serve to bring forward this fateful date, which has been and will continue to generate fantasy and mythology for a long time to co

But it is perhaps possible to believe in a cycle effect, in a possible renewal, on the ashes of a desolate landscape. The world of the album 'Lapse' is rather sombre, a mix of rock, contemporary music and melancholy melodies. The tracks evoke the inexorable fall of our humanity, but with a glimmer of hope.

After almost 20 years of working together, the five musicians of OXYD, who met at the conservatoire, continue to offer music that cannot be classified. Unclassifiable because it falls outside harmonic, rhythmic and melodic clichés. Or because, on the contrary, the group has seized on these clichés to re-appropriate them and make them its own. It's this search for a personal sound that has sustained them for all these years, a group sound to be sought by taking into account the personalities, tastes, evolutions and experiences of each member. Without worrying too much about fashions or aesthetic labels, their search lies elsewhere: in the group's personality and telepathy.