A Sense of Doubt blog post #4263 - ANGINE DE POITRINE - Music Monday for 2610.19
Discovered a new band.
And now I share with my two readers.
They will be in Portland in December, but it's a standing venue, not my jam.
Angine de Poitrine is weird. That may be exactly what your brain craves.
The mysterious Québécois duo has captivated millions online with its bizarre costumes and mind-bending music. A cognitive neuroscientist explains why we're hooked on Angine de Poitrine.
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| Musical guest Angine de Poitrine performs on 'The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' on Sept. 14, 2026. (Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images) |
Meet Khn and Klek de Poitrine, the mysterious Québécois duo behind Angine de Poitrine. Known for their microtonal sound, oversize papier-mache masks and black-and-white polka-dot costumes, the musicians have become an unlikely internet sensation by performing as 333-year-old alien time travelers.
The duo has gone viral over the past year, earning praise from high-profile rock musicians like Dave Grohl and Lars Ulrich, and they even opened for Jack White back in July. Now, they're taking their otherworldly act on a European tour, with sold-out shows drawing fans eager to see the spectacle.
Do they look or sound familiar? You may have encountered them on your social media feed. Perhaps there's a certain je ne sais quoi that makes you want to keep watching them play. You're not alone.
At first glance, Angine de Poitrine looks like a surrealist art project that somehow wandered onto a rock stage. But beneath their avant-garde costumes is a technically ambitious musical act that blends intricate rhythms, looping guitar riffs and unusual pitches into a sound that's as hypnotic as it is hard to categorize.
Who are these mysterious musicians, what exactly are they playing, and why can't people seem to look away? Yahoo explains.
Who is Angine de Poitrine?
Angine de Poitrine doesn't describe itself as a band, but rather as a "mantra-rock Dada Pythago-Cubist orchestra." The group's name translates from French to "angina pectoris," a medical term for chest pain. Makes sense once you listen to them.
The anonymous musicians behind the rock duo from Saguenay, Quebec, perform under aliases: Khn de Poitrine plays a double-necked guitar and bass, and Klek de Poitrine is on the drums. Onstage, they communicate by forming triangles with their hands, both to each other and the crowd, and by making alien-like grunts and sounds. Their real names have never been publicly confirmed. All we know is that they're not Lady Gaga or Elton John — they're just "two random dudes," as they told the Guardian.
The anonymity started off as something of a joke in 2019. Their main band was booked twice in a week at the same venue in their small hometown, and the musicians didn't think anyone would want to see the same act perform again so soon, they told the Guardian. Lucky for them, the duo had a microtonal side project and just needed a disguise.
Their previous main band made massive papier-mache piñatas for the crowd to destroy in the pit at shows, sparking the idea of creating DIY masks to conceal their identities.
And the polka-dot aesthetic? That came from a spare guitar neck Klek used to build the duo's first microtonal guitar. It was covered in polka dots from the previous owner, and the two ran with the look.
Add comedically long noses into the equation, and the result is a visual identity that's … hard to forget.
But don't let the visual absurdity distract you. Angine de Poitrine's sound is built around microtonal music, which is hardly anything new. The technique uses pitches that fall between the notes of the 12-tone system commonly heard in Western popular music and has a long history in musical traditions across the Middle East and Asia.
They aren't the first Western musicians to experiment with microtones, either. Radiohead, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Steve Vai and Jacob Collier are just some other musicians who have done this, too, according to Guitar World.
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2610.19 - 10:10
- Days ago: MOM = 4127 days ago & DAD = 781 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I post Hey Mom blog entries on special occasions. I post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day, and now I have a second count for Days since my Dad died on August 28, 2024. I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of Mom's death, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of her death and sometimes 13:40 EDT for the time of Dad's death. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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