BRUIT ≤ share track "Intoxication of Power" w/video recorded in underground construction site. New album out April 25 on Pelagic.

BRUIT ≤ - Share new track & video "The Intoxication of Power" - Album 'The Age of Ephemerality' out April 25th on Pelagic - European tour with Alcest announced

Still from "The Intoxication of Power" video   Today BRUIT ≤ release a cavernous new track from their forthcoming album, accompanied a truly unique video recorded with a classical ensemble inside a construction site for a metro station. "The Intoxication of Power" is the third piece to be released from their forthcoming ‘The Age Of Ephemerality’, due out on 25th of April via Pelagic.  The vastness of the band's new album is amped up in a suitably resonant space on the new video for "The Intoxication of Power". Recorded in January, the clip sees the band play on a new metro line being built 100 feet underground in Toulouse, taking a whole team of artists with them. The band comment: "Like money, technology has become a power-grabbing tool whose effects are increasingly poisonous. This is the Intoxication of power, turning man's future into a mountain of connected hubris. To illustrate this, we shot a live session accompanied by a classical ensemble, 100 feet underground in a construction site in progress. With this atypical choice of location, we wanted to evoke the underground meetings of the French Resistance, opening the door to a counter-culture in the midst of a dystopian atmosphere." They continue: "For the occasion we brought together a collective of artists active on the Toulouse scene, including video-makers, sound engineers, festival managers and classical musicians: 2 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 trumpet, 1 french horn, 1 trombone and 1 bass trombone" the band explain. "We used the site crane to lower the music, video and sound equipment." Watch the video for "The Intoxication of Power" here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhfY7nulAQ 'The Age of Ephemerality' album links: https://orcd.co/bruit 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. 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.   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): 23/08/25 Maastricht (NL) Pelagic Fest  24/08/25 Maastricht (NL) Pelagic Fest 25/09/25 Nantes (FR) Le Ferailleur 26/09/25 Paris (FR) La maroquinerie 27/09/25 Béthune (FR) Le Poche  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 * 14/11/25 Martigny (CH) Les Caves Du Manoir  15/11/25 Neunkirchen (DE) Gloomaar Festival  And more to be announced... * Opening for Alcest 'The Age of Ephemerality' artwork (click for high res): Links: INSTAGRAM FACEBOOK BANDCAMP PELAGIC ARTIST PAGE