BRUIT ≤ ~ The Age of Ephemerality

Much has gone downhill in the news since The Age of Ephemerality was recorded, which makes the album not only prescient, but an album for our times.  The Toulouse, France post-rock quartet, whose name means noise, builds toward a concluding quote

BRUIT ≤ ~ Apologie du temps perdu Vol. 1

Apologie du temps perdu (Apology for lost time) is an unannounced release from BRUIT ≤, the follow-up to The machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again.  On that album, BRUIT ≤ was a post-rock band with touches of

ACL 2021 ~ Top Ten Rock and Post-Rock

Sorry, friends, no folk or jazz made our top ten this year ~ 2021 was the year of rock and post-rock!  With almost every major post-rock band releasing an EP or album in 2021, even some of the top performers

BRUIT ≤ ~ The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again

I can’t believe this is a debut album.  Toulouse post-rock quartet BRUIT ≤ (the symbol a sign of humility, meaning “less than”) certainly knows what it’s doing. Four extended stormers (one for each member), two explosive videos, a sense of largesse, and a