Route 78 #[nn]

Éric Cartier's Route 78 from Delcourt's Mirages imprint captures the sun-baked romance of the open road in one irresistible image: a young man in denim strides toward us, travel bag in hand, while a woman in a cowboy hat lingers behind him on a desert highway, an old truck rusting beside distant cacti under a golden sky. The warm amber palette and Cartier's confident linework make this 2015 album feel like a love letter to American wandering filtered through a distinctly European eye.