It\u2019s the viral music phenomenon being hailed as the first anti-AI band, the saviour of music, and possibly proof of alien life forms.<\/p>\n
Canadian duo Angine de Poitrine have staged a shock takeover of the internet, their weird look and sound offering an antidote to the formulaic pop pumped out of hit factories to feed the algorithms.<\/p>\n
The two masked, anonymous rockers from Quebec have been kicking around the Canadian underground for several years but exploded into the mainstream recently with a 28-minute video of a live set posted on YouTube.<\/p>\n
Drummer Klek de Poitrine and guitar and bass player Khn de Poitrine wear black and white polka-dot costumes with papier-mache masks that feature Pinocchio-sized noses.<\/p>\n
The pair describe themselves as \u201cspace-time voyagers\u201d whose instrumental songs stem from the unique genre of \u201cmantra-rock, Dadaist, Pythagorean-Cubist orchestra.\u201d<\/p>\n
Triangles are a big part of the band\u2019s brand; they feature on their costumes and the musicians raise hand triangles \u2013 think a more geometric version of the heart hands emoji \u2013 between songs.<\/p>\n
What we do know of the mysterious musicians\u2019 back story is Angine de Poitrine started as a joke. Their previous band was booked to play a local venue twice in the same week and the pair was concerned no one would come to the second show.<\/p>\n
The dalmatians on acid look may have started the viral ball rolling, but it’s the microtonal math rock sound of these clearly accomplished players that is striking a chord for all the right reasons.<\/p>\n
Their \u201cFor Fans Of\u201d list would include Australian psych rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard or 90s altrock heroes Primus, the band behind the South Park theme.<\/p>\n
Angine de Poitrine, French for the chest pain that can precede a heart attack, have captured the imagination of music fans because of the intricate interplay between Klek\u2019s off-kilter rhythms and tempos, and Khn\u2019s looped parts played from a custom-made, double-headed instrument with the bass on the bottom and guitar on top.<\/p>\n
His \u201cguitar\u201d also has double the number of frets meaning he can play double the notes. <\/p>\n
People are reacting to the weirdness of hearing all those extra notes that don\u2019t get played in your average three-minute pop song or the AI slop flooding streaming platforms.<\/p>\n
Their songs are instrumental, with the only lyrics or \u201cwords\u201d spoken during their rare interviews resembling dog barks or \u201calien\u201d gobbledygook.<\/p>\n
\u201cAI: Humans are done with music; Angine de Poitrine: Hold my triangular Martian beer,\u201d joked one fan under the YouTube video of a live performance recorded in France for Seattle public radio station KEXP. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s this 28 minute video \u2013 eight million plays and counting \u2013 that fuelled huge demand for their second album titled Vol. II released last week. Shows on their upcoming tour of the US and Europe are sold out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came back from the year 3056 to witness the birth of our music,\u201d quipped a fan while another asked \u201cWhen they announce a world tour, I hope they clarify which world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl is partly responsible for escalating Angine de Poitrine\u2019s incursion into the mainstream.<\/p>\n
When asked during a recent podcast interview what he was currently listening to, Grohl shared a snippet of the eccentric band in action, saying \u201cIt was sent to me yesterday by a friend and it absolutely blew my f…ing mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
The comments sections on all of the hot takes of why Angine de Poitrine have taken the music world by storm are divided on whether the Canadian duo\u2019s popularity is a reaction to AI\u2019s takeover of music creation and the pop swill the machines are churning out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think a reason Angine de Poitrine was so primed for a breakthrough now is in the face of mounting, unregulated AI music slop, people are increasingly gravitating towards weirdness,\u201d said Canadian music commentator Emilie Hanskamp.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy? Because quirkiness and weirdness are inherently human. As AI gets more sophisticated, intentionally making it harder to discern between art that is and isn\u2019t human-made, people find immediate comfort and resonance in art that is undeniably human.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the viral music phenomenon being hailed as the first anti-AI band, the saviour of music, and possibly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[291664,291662,2095,64,63,291651,2065,291660,447,33962,291658,134396,134,2057,291654,31238,2592,291659,1289,291657,291649,259085,248687,291656,202271,2041,2067,291663,291650,291661,291652,291665,5142,43173,291666,68089,23082,2614,291655,2062,291653,39557],"class_list":{"0":"post-597746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-alien-life-forms","9":"tag-altrock-heroes","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-bass-player","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canadian-duo","16":"tag-celebrities","17":"tag-chest-pain","18":"tag-comments-sections","19":"tag-dave-grohl","20":"tag-entertainment","21":"tag-europe","22":"tag-flooding-streaming-platforms","23":"tag-foo-fighters","24":"tag-france","25":"tag-gizzard","26":"tag-heart-attack","27":"tag-heart-hands","28":"tag-instrumental-songs","29":"tag-kathy-mccabe","30":"tag-music-creation","31":"tag-music-fans","32":"tag-music-world","33":"tag-north-america","34":"tag-northern-america","35":"tag-off-kilter-rhythms","36":"tag-pair-raise-hand","37":"tag-papier-mache-masks","38":"tag-pythagorean-cubist-orchestra","39":"tag-raise-hand-triangles","40":"tag-seattle","41":"tag-social-media-platforms","42":"tag-space-time-voyagers","43":"tag-state-of-washington","44":"tag-theme-song","45":"tag-united-states-of-america","46":"tag-viral-music-phenomenon","47":"tag-western-europe","48":"tag-white-polka-dot-costumes","49":"tag-world-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}