BRUIT ≤ share new track & video "Data". Album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’ out April 25 on Pelagic.
BRUIT ≤- Share new track & video "Data"
- Album 'The Age of Ephemerality' out April 25th on Pelagic
- European tour with Alcest announced
Photo credit: Arnaud Payen
“Everything that can be technically achieved will be. All possible combinations will be
exhaustively tested.” - Dennis Gabor’s Law
BRUIT ≤ have shared a second look at their forthcoming album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, set for release on the 25th of April via Pelagic.
As the ethics of major streaming services and social media outlets come to the fore, BRUIT ≤ prepare for the timely release of their colossal new album. A philosophical, poetic and political reflection on our insatiable fascination with technology, a dependence as reverential as it is increasingly alienating and exploitative, ‘ The Age Of Ephemerality ’ is a seismic collision of old and new, of sounds organic and electric, with the trailblazing four-piece capturing the resultant symphony in all its chaotic, confrontational glory.
Following previous single "Ephemeral", today BRUIT ≤ share the album's soaring second track, "Data", which takes ‘Ephemeral’s instrumental fury and reshapes it; cannibalising the grinding cacophony and spitting out a delirious, DnB-like dirge before this too implodes in a hail of scattered digital artefacts before a blissfully bittersweet piano motif plays us out; a haunting analogue of the track’s synthesised introduction.
The band comment: "Data explores the problem of mass surveillance and globalised manipulation through the digitisation of everything. Driven by an urgent drum & bass beat, the track confronts electronic elements, electric guitar and cello, with a brass ensemble and bicentennial organ, diluting what is organic and what's not. Through this process, we tried to illustrate the confusion we feel every day when faced with fake news, AI generated content or targeted advertising... What's still social about our network? What's still organic about our relationship with the world?"
Watch the video for "Data" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-gV13OnE0
'The Age of Ephemerality' album links: https://orcd.co/bruit
A cautionary sonic exploration of society’s deference to the algorithm; ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’ will not be available on major international streaming platforms. Much like the rest of the band’s discography, the album reinforces the collective’s staunch boycott of Spotify; a response to the platform’s consistently diminishing artist payout policies as well as billionaire CEO Daniel Ek’s recent investment in the arms trade. Written in the mountains and recorded in a church, the album is BRUIT ≤ experimenting with capturing the sound of physical space as if it were an instrument in its own right; as something that can never be artificially generated or digitally replicated.
Amplifying contemporary instruments, tools and tech in a building hundreds of years old; synths, drums, strings, an eight-strong electric guitar orchestra made up of friends and collaborators from the Toulouse scene (Slift, Plebian Grandstand, Mourir, Zelezna, Orme) and the original, 1864 church organ collide in an incendiary aural statement that spurns society’s reliance on technocratic tendencies in favour of celebrating togetherness, the power of community and the creative inspiration of the moment.
Afterwards, the band spent weeks between Toulouse’s Studio Capitole and their own Studio La Taniere, experimenting with an array of configurations and arrangements that push the idea of post-production to its limits. By layering contrasting compositional methods from different technological eras on top of a sprawling collection of sounds old and new, BRUIT ≤ deliver an astounding sonic choreography that forces the listener to confront the inequalities and injustices behind the casual convenience of the modern day music industries.
Just as BRUIT ≤ seek to expose how desperate things have become, ‘The Age of Ephemerality’ serves as a harrowing yet profound reminder that the only way to break algorithmic malaise and see real change is to resist, to do it ourselves.
BRUIT ≤ are:
Théophile Antolinos - Guitars, Banjo, Tapes, Soundscapes
Clément Libes - Bass, Baritone Guitars, Bass VI, Violin, Viola, Organ, Piano, Modular Synth, Programming
Luc Blanchot - Cello, Programming, Synth
Julien Aoufi - Drums
'The Age Of Ephemerality' track list:
Side A
1. Ephemeral - official video
2. Data - official video
3. Progress / Regress
Side B
4. Techno-Slavery / Vandalism
5. The Intoxication Of Power
BRUIT ≤ live dates (w/Alcest):
07/10/25 Rennes (FR) Antipode
08/10/25 La Roche-sur-Yon (FR) Quai M
09/10/25 Toulouse (FR) Interference
10/10/25 Barcelona (ES) Apolo
11/10/25 Montpellier (FR) Victoire 2
12/10/25 Istres (FR) L’Usine
14/10/25 Bordeaux (FR) Le Rocher Palmer
15/10/25 Tours (FR) Le Temps Machine
16/10/25 Le Mans (FR) Les Saulnières
17/10/25 Ris-Orangis (FR) Le Plan
19/10/25 Besançon (FR) La Rodia
21/10/25 Lausanne (CH) Les Docks
22/10/25 Lyon (FR) La Rayonne
23/10/25 Nancy (FR) L’autre Canal
24/10/25 Antwerp (BE) Trix
25/10/25 Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje
'The Age of Ephemerality' artwork (click for high res):
Links:
INSTAGRAM
FACEBOOK
BANDCAMP
PELAGIC ARTIST PAGE
- Album 'The Age of Ephemerality' out April 25th on Pelagic
- European tour with Alcest announced
Photo credit: Arnaud Payen “Everything that can be technically achieved will be. All possible combinations will be
exhaustively tested.” - Dennis Gabor’s Law
BRUIT ≤ have shared a second look at their forthcoming album ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, set for release on the 25th of April via Pelagic.
As the ethics of major streaming services and social media outlets come to the fore, BRUIT ≤ prepare for the timely release of their colossal new album. A philosophical, poetic and political reflection on our insatiable fascination with technology, a dependence as reverential as it is increasingly alienating and exploitative, ‘ The Age Of Ephemerality ’ is a seismic collision of old and new, of sounds organic and electric, with the trailblazing four-piece capturing the resultant symphony in all its chaotic, confrontational glory.
Following previous single "Ephemeral", today BRUIT ≤ share the album's soaring second track, "Data", which takes ‘Ephemeral’s instrumental fury and reshapes it; cannibalising the grinding cacophony and spitting out a delirious, DnB-like dirge before this too implodes in a hail of scattered digital artefacts before a blissfully bittersweet piano motif plays us out; a haunting analogue of the track’s synthesised introduction.
The band comment: "Data explores the problem of mass surveillance and globalised manipulation through the digitisation of everything. Driven by an urgent drum & bass beat, the track confronts electronic elements, electric guitar and cello, with a brass ensemble and bicentennial organ, diluting what is organic and what's not. Through this process, we tried to illustrate the confusion we feel every day when faced with fake news, AI generated content or targeted advertising... What's still social about our network? What's still organic about our relationship with the world?"
Watch the video for "Data" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bD-gV13OnE0
'The Age of Ephemerality' album links: https://orcd.co/bruit
A cautionary sonic exploration of society’s deference to the algorithm; ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’ will not be available on major international streaming platforms. Much like the rest of the band’s discography, the album reinforces the collective’s staunch boycott of Spotify; a response to the platform’s consistently diminishing artist payout policies as well as billionaire CEO Daniel Ek’s recent investment in the arms trade. Written in the mountains and recorded in a church, the album is BRUIT ≤ experimenting with capturing the sound of physical space as if it were an instrument in its own right; as something that can never be artificially generated or digitally replicated.
Amplifying contemporary instruments, tools and tech in a building hundreds of years old; synths, drums, strings, an eight-strong electric guitar orchestra made up of friends and collaborators from the Toulouse scene (Slift, Plebian Grandstand, Mourir, Zelezna, Orme) and the original, 1864 church organ collide in an incendiary aural statement that spurns society’s reliance on technocratic tendencies in favour of celebrating togetherness, the power of community and the creative inspiration of the moment.
Afterwards, the band spent weeks between Toulouse’s Studio Capitole and their own Studio La Taniere, experimenting with an array of configurations and arrangements that push the idea of post-production to its limits. By layering contrasting compositional methods from different technological eras on top of a sprawling collection of sounds old and new, BRUIT ≤ deliver an astounding sonic choreography that forces the listener to confront the inequalities and injustices behind the casual convenience of the modern day music industries.
Just as BRUIT ≤ seek to expose how desperate things have become, ‘The Age of Ephemerality’ serves as a harrowing yet profound reminder that the only way to break algorithmic malaise and see real change is to resist, to do it ourselves.
BRUIT ≤ are:
Théophile Antolinos - Guitars, Banjo, Tapes, Soundscapes
Clément Libes - Bass, Baritone Guitars, Bass VI, Violin, Viola, Organ, Piano, Modular Synth, Programming
Luc Blanchot - Cello, Programming, Synth
Julien Aoufi - Drums
'The Age Of Ephemerality' track list:
Side A
1. Ephemeral - official video
2. Data - official video
3. Progress / Regress
Side B
4. Techno-Slavery / Vandalism
5. The Intoxication Of Power
BRUIT ≤ live dates (w/Alcest):
07/10/25 Rennes (FR) Antipode
08/10/25 La Roche-sur-Yon (FR) Quai M
09/10/25 Toulouse (FR) Interference
10/10/25 Barcelona (ES) Apolo
11/10/25 Montpellier (FR) Victoire 2
12/10/25 Istres (FR) L’Usine
14/10/25 Bordeaux (FR) Le Rocher Palmer
15/10/25 Tours (FR) Le Temps Machine
16/10/25 Le Mans (FR) Les Saulnières
17/10/25 Ris-Orangis (FR) Le Plan
19/10/25 Besançon (FR) La Rodia
21/10/25 Lausanne (CH) Les Docks
22/10/25 Lyon (FR) La Rayonne
23/10/25 Nancy (FR) L’autre Canal
24/10/25 Antwerp (BE) Trix
25/10/25 Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje
'The Age of Ephemerality' artwork (click for high res):
Links:
BANDCAMP
PELAGIC ARTIST PAGE
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