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