Bruit Noir IV / III Vinyl LP 2023

1. Intro
2. Bruit Noir IV
3. Coup d'Etat
4. Chanteur Engage
5. Petit Prince
6. Le Visiteur
7. Tourette
8. Artistes
9. Calme Ta Joie
10. Communiste
11. Beatrice
12. Animaux
13. Deux Enfants

Bruit Noir (Black Noise in French) is the brainchild of Jean Michel Pires and Pascal Bouaziz, formerly the only permanent number of the now defunct cult underground project Mendelson.

After voluntarily crashing the Mendelson plane in 2022, the two iconoclasts join forces for a new Bruit Noir album, drawing inspiration from abstract hip-hop, the incisive sounds of post-punk and the ever relevant collapsology of industrial music. While Pires develops layers of corrosive sounds, Bouaziz -- true to himself -- delivers deadpan spoken words full of dark humour, angst and bitterness and delivered in a nightmarish whispered style, sometimes bursting out with anxiously punk theatricals.

With nothing left to lose anymore, the two veterans are taking no prisoners and the result is fascinatingly hazy, raw and disturbing. Often crossing the borders of political correctness, Bruit Noir obsessively deliver their own hard truths, haunted by memories of a long gone world and somehow fuelled by the dreams of a future we can only hope to be less bleak than the present.