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Bruit Noir (Black Noise in French) is the brainchild of Jean Michel Pires and Pascal Bouaziz, formerly the only permanent members 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 humor, angst, and bitterness 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 fueled by the dreams of a future we can only hope to be less bleak than the present.