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Bruit < have made a new single called “Parasite (The Boycott Manifesto)” available for streaming below. It is the first piece of music to be shared by the Toulouse, France-born neoclassical post-rock ensemble since their début album “The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again”, which arrived via Elusive Sound in 2021.

Commenting on the new track, which is their first-ever to land on common digital streaming platforms, the band offered:

We are regularly asked the question: ‘Why can't we find you on the streaming platforms?’ Here is a universal and digital answer that will generate clicks while bringing in shareholders. Since the great crisis of the record industry, the industry has mutated—it has transformed itself to exploit artists as never before by crushing them under the monopoly of the streaming platforms.

At a time when a change of algorithm can call into question your digital existence, the durability of your professional activity, or the peace of your social life, it seems more necessary than ever to remind people that an audience is not a database and that artists do not have to become influencers. It is unacceptable that people like Daniel Ek, the boss of Spotify, still exploit artists in total impunity and use this money to invest in AI for military use. It's high time to practice music vandalism and parasite the machine!

Danish fans can look forward to watching the outfit live at Råhuset in Copenhagen next Sunday, December 18th, and tickets for the show are still available for purchase here for 57 DKK (incl. fees). Further details about the concert can be found in its official Facebook event.