''Brute Force'' is the third studio album by French musical project

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. The album was released on 1 April 2016 through

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. It is the project's first studio release with the label.

Promotion and release

Promotional video single "Floating Point" was announced through ''

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'' on 30 January 2016 with a

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released on the project's official blog the following month. On 9 March 2016, ''Metal Underground'' premiered the music video for "Pointers" along with the track listing for the album. Commenting on the release, Gallego stated the track was "one of my favorite ongsso far". The same day, the album was made available for pre-order on the project's website with various bundle options. Some bundles included a

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version of the album on a

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. On 30 March 2016, two days before official release, the full album was streamed with ''Metal Hammer'' accompanied by Gallego's track-by-track analysis of the album.

Critical reception

Upon release, the album gained generally positive reviews from metal publications. Paulo Bodriguez of ''The Monolith'' gave the album a positive review, stating "The Algorithm...have clearly found their own unique style and sound", while referring to the floppy disk pre-orders as a "cheeky sense of self-awareness". Nicholas Senior of ''New Noise'', when observing the progression of The Algorithm's sound, stated "we hear the band hitting a sweet spot down the middle, with an album that is equally comfortable executing really interesting electronic passages and hard synths as it is hitting the blast beats and post-

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riffs hard."

Track listing

Notes * All track titles are stylised in lowercase.

Personnel

The Algorithm * Rémi Gallego – synthesizer,

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, guitar, mixing, programming, production Additional musicians * Igorrr – guest instrumentation on track 8, "Deadlock" Additional personnel * Erica Schaub – artwork, layout

References

{{Authority control 2016 albums The Algorithm albums Albums produced by Rémi Gallego FiXT albums