Raté — Bruit De Fond

Bruit De Fond is an example of churning walled noise nihilism from Bordeaux’s Raté. It’s a single thirty-four-minute track, which remains terminal hope-battering & unbreakable over its full length.

Cover art-wise for this digital release, we have a black-and-white photo of traffic. Going by the cars, I’m guessing it’s from either the 1970’s or 1980’s, and there is a rather uneasy feel to it, as the first car in the line has a shadowy figure sitting in the driver's seat.

The track is built around a thick, full and rapid blend of constantly rolling bass churn, choppy mids, and cluttering hiss-bound subtones. It makes for a very clamouring and airless ‘wall’- which to me brought to mind having a panic attack in rush hour city traffic, which of course fits the cover image well.

The ‘wall’ here is relatively simple in its textural make-up, but the textures are well balanced with the whole thing having a nicely encasing/ rewarding overwhelming feel about it. As it goes on, there seems to be a more haphazardly blurring & blending quality to the ‘wall’- though I’m not sure if this is real or imagined.

If you're on the market for world-numbing and truly hopeless walled noise, Bruit De Fond, will most certainly be enjoyed, in a nihilistic and barrenly encasing way.