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New album up for pre-order

https://anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii

Insane that these guys went mega-viral and are selling out pressing after pressing of vinyl and no one is interviewing this band

here's an old one but it's in French: https://sorstu.ca/mysterieuse-entrevue-epistolaire-avec-angine-de-poitrine-lapparition-dun-nouveau-symptome/

here they are on <<Tout le monde en parle>>, a venerable Quebecois talk show:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orgef29a0_4

my one piece of constructive criticism for the band is that the drummer should attach some kind of cymbal or shaker to his floppy nose. perhaps a set of castanets?

Wonder if they're Gong/Hillage fans, Mata Zyklek has that Glorious OM Riff DNA

these guys are so hot right now. both NY shows sold out so fast.

have you pitched an interview anywhere, WGW?

I really want to but I’m super busy right now. I pitched a review at least.

whiney if you interview them can you ask if they know Les Georges Leningrad?

Hype-allergic though I usually am, I dig this pair a lot and have been preaching the good news about them to all of my friends.

There's something about their melding of the appealing and unappealing that is just very refreshing to me right now. And I like how their virtuosity is tempered by a kind of post punk minimalism. The costume and fake language gimmick is the sort of thing that would usually irritate me, but here I find it very charming. Good times all around.

There is something about their whole deal that reminds me of something my friends and I would have dreamed up back in high school, except we would have had zero chops and been totally unlistenable.

so hype and gimmicks are bad ... unless you like them? is that the takeaway?

yes, that's exactly it

real, boring answer: hype and gimmicks are neither good nor bad, they just tend to put me off. That's a "me" thing, not a judgment on anyone's art or means of promoting themselves

and when an artist manages to disarm me from my usual prejudices, I think it's interesting. It's like a magic trick--how'd you pull that off?

fair enough. i don't know why i chimed in. bored, i guess. my bad!

loving these guys, the two friends who both passed them on to be cited Gizzard vibes and they definitely chime with the Gizz's microtonal eras

The videos I’ve seen of them performing are a somewhat hypnotic experience. Coordination is their main trick and they’re pretty good at it. I don’t mind the gimmicks. This is one of those instances where I feel it’s ironically less distracting for them to play with masks than it would be to have them showing their faces doing awkwardly focused expressions.

One of those bands I’d pay to see live but wouldn’t buy an album.

Me and my son have been enjoying the stuff that comes up on my You Tube algorithm. he's basically spellbound with the videos.

hey, if it puts a 12 year old onto prog influenced math rock and away from Spotify/lofi beats slop, then masks off to them.

just seen the electric Ballroom gig is sold out + 14+ age restriction so we'll have to stick to the online videos only.

I don't mind the gimmick, kind of nice to have a band with a clear visual design language that doesn't feel cynically grafted on.

the painted bare feet are especially chefs kiss.

Watching the KEXP session every night before going to bed. Spellbound is indeed the right word.

Was at a gig tonight and the opening act's drummer (they were a mathy 2-piece) recommended this lot, interesting, will have to investigate

Lol 2 veterans of the yahoogroup where I first encountered whiney give this band a “no” … so imago, you would probably love this band.

I think they are good (good not bad). And probably way more enjoyable to listen to without video than Clown Core (who are also incredible in their way).

One of those bands I’d pay to see live but wouldn’t buy an album.

Given how much people are asking for this on Discogs, seeing them live is likely to be far more economical.

I agree with your assessment though. I would tag along to see these guys but I don't think I need to sit and home and listen to this.

not even really a commentary on the band, i just think it's fascinating when resellers try to capitalize on a blurp of hype like this

https://i.postimg.cc/VNBZxZ3n/ap.png

Lol 2 veterans of the yahoogroup where I first encountered whiney give this band a “no” … so imago, you would probably love this band.

When I first saw this video I literally texted my group chat “This the type of shit l0u1s jagg3r is like “How can you people listen to Rosalia over this””

Of course like 5 minutes later they became my favorite band in the world, so game recognize game I guess

lol I've had my whole 'Rosalia is good' arc, although her last album undid it a bit

This? This first album is...okay. It's a bit too Palm/Horse Lords-adjacent for me, i.e. I can imagine it being absolutely incredible live, but less impressive in terms of studio composition - the songs don't really take journeys, they meditate upon cool patterns. I'd definitely be up for seeing them in person. This last weekend I went to the Bridget Riley exhibition in Margate and that was much the same - paintings I'd probably scoff at on a screen ("it's just colour bars!") suddenly become hypnotic, psychedelic, overwhelming when they're lifesize and in your face and you can't focus on one spot. Simple patterns, but so vast, so cool...this kind of music works, for me, in that visceral context, rather than on headphones

Were you on drugs? … idk I don’t find Riley that compelling, but that’s consistent with my general art preferences.

I mean I'm not usually into that sort of thing either, but something about the size and difficulty of focus...I had been drinking and had also just consumed whelks though

And speaking of arty Canadian bands — Aids Wolf recently released an EP of unreleased material. They are an excellent band imo.

sold out 2 nights at nyc's lpr immediately, obv. i am intrigued enough to add myself to the waitlist, not intrigued enough to pay out the (floppy) nose for re-sale tix

TS: flaccid nose vs. erect nose

Misread as “noise” and thought… flaccid v erect is a good dichotomy in categorizing noise artists

lots of folks on reddit are posting that their shows are selling out in less than a minute

a few cities got second shows and those also sold out

ticketmaster is such a corrupt entity

i hope people are motivated enough to pass some kind of legislature to cap prices of ticket resales

sorry, i should have said, "to write to their MP to pass some kind of legislature"

i'm still kind of angry about this

a little bit about the luthier that constructed the quarter-tone guitars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei3nrz2vcTg

And speaking of arty Canadian bands — Aids Wolf recently released an EP of unreleased material. They are an excellent band imo.

Oh yay I always hoped they'd done some recordings of the era where Chloe was only doing robot voices.

I'm seeing folks in the IG peanut gallery calling these guys "industry plants" now, which is hilarious. We truly live in an age of unfettered paranoia

Nothing ever happens organically, everything is manifested according to the hidden will of the shadowy cabal...what an exhausting worldview to have

they're being foisted upon us by "big microtone"

lol

Wow lol

I'm seeing folks in the IG peanut gallery calling these guys "industry plants" now, which is hilarious. We truly live in an age of unfettered paranoia

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, March 23, 2026 9:17 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the international Illuminati cooking up a scheme to sell 5000 vinyl records on Bandcamp

they are at least the second iteration of a phenomenon of experimental acts going viral on short form video for quirky live performances and selling out tours, the first being ryosuke kiyasu

these people act like there's no precedent for a rock act dressing up in outlandish costumes to get attention

these people act like there's no precedent for a rock act dressing up in outlandish costumes to get attention

https://i8.amplience.net/i/naras/the-beatles_MI0003995354-MN0000754032

xps it's all a plot by Big Tonality to sell more notes!

Anyway I'm bummed that I couldn't get tix to their Philly show before they sold out :(

they are at least the second iteration of a phenomenon of experimental acts going viral on short form video for quirky live performances and selling out tours, the first being ryosuke kiyasu

lol can't wait for the rick beato take on ryosuke kiyasu

In fairness too, it's microtonal but definitely doesn't feel as "challenging" as some stuff (like, Horse Lords would probably be their closest analog, but they definitely project a Frippish egghead chilliness that's makes it more off-putting initially); they have pretty strong pop instincts even working within the framework of avant rock.

I usually think of the existence of irrational haters trying to convince you of their rationality as a green flag that something real is happening

Not to be all "uh huh huh huh" moustache twizzle but unlike the other bands being mentioned, AdP is a live looping band and we've learned long ago that live looping is catnip for normies. Maintain a transparent build process, incorporate a transcendent harmonic/rhythmic epiphany, lather rinse repeat

― yet I admit I'm still susceptible to ILX's allure (flamboyant goon tie included), Monday, 29 June 2026 17:23 (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

looool

(the joke here is that fgti does this, or at least did when i saw them, and it was still great)

Comparing AdP to, like, Reggie Watts is savage

yeah, that's crazy. these folks are ... there for the band? or is this perhaps a typical crowd for the event and this is just who's playing?

― alpine static, Monday, June 29, 2026 4:54 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

no not a typical crowd, people were absolutely there for the band. impossible to understate how big they are with quebecois normies

Obviously I don't know who was there or their internal reasons for coming (and I didn't go, rightly guessing it would be insanely crowded), but speculating and it's kind of a perfect storm situation: extremely successful local band that appeals to both franco- and anglophones, emerging elements of "bands that are their own subculture" alongside a kind of quirky fun mass phenomenon thing, free show on a Saturday night, super nice weather, peak tourist season, Montreal is a young person / university student town in a lot of ways, and AdP do have a surprisingly wide appeal even in my limited experience of playing it for people who literally don't like/listen to anything else remotely like this

― rob, Monday, June 29, 2026 9:30 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

another relevant factor is that they are a quebecois band who are making it big and the young generation are as of very recently super strongly embracing their culture to an extent previous generations didn't https://www.cbc.ca/arts/commotion/is-being-a-quebec-sovereignist-cool-9.7247017

A big part of the appeal I wonder is that they’re not from Montreal

xp yeah I def wondered how much that's a factor. AdP are "unapologetically / uncompromisingly francophone" but crucially they're instrumental so that doesn't turn off any anglos.

I have thoughts about the new wave of separatism but I would feel bad ruining this thread lol

oddly, while we were in quebec city, there was a very small group of sad looking dudes outside the US consulate with "Make French America Great Again" who wanted to become the 51st state. They looked like they needed socialized medicine tbh and were unlikely to attend an Angine de Poitrine concert.

with "Make French America Great Again" ~flags~

@ zachrys I was being serious about the broad appeal of live looping and I am serious when I say that AdP’s deployment of said technique is largely why they both appeal to the norms and also kick ass

lol i was gonna say..

I usually think of the existence of irrational haters trying to convince you of their rationality as a green flag that something real is happening

― ok (D-40), Monday, June 29, 2026 1:31 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I want to commemorate this moment when D-40 & I are on exactly the same page

these ppl like to use the word "relevant" a lot & they have no actual ideas about music. utter losers

they also view everything through the lens of overrated/underrated

absolutely. "relevancy" is a mirage. the degree to which others rate something is unimportant and boring to discuss. what matters is what the artist, their noise, their presentation, their performance, their intellectual quotient, their concept, their universe, makes you feel. anything else is dull stats for the dead-inside to sift over.

xps fgti I wasn't sure how much you were snarking and got a little defensive, it's all good

They’re booked to play our Winnipeg Folkfest next Friday night (80,000 attendance typically over the full weekend). The Friday night sold out 2 weeks ahead of time and they’re not even going to be on the mainstage

I will say that most loop-based live shows bore me to tears and fgti was very much an exception in this regard

Just friggin wait til I get out of this hospital bed, I built a post-loop-sound-design-focused New Rig over the winter and I'm fuckin pissed to have to set back any live demos as a result of garbage. wrt AdP they really get the concept that a good loop performance is like taking the audience by the hand to show them something unexpected and cool and I def appreciate that about them. I like too that it's 24tet but essentially tonal-- take that, Jute Gyte!

BTW, those Quebec MAGA mentioned earlier are currently posting lots and lots of Satanic Panic stuff about AdP all over FB and Instagram. It was already there to an extent--almost all of the haters on the public FB fan groups have conspiracy stuff on their profiles, and it's been that way for about a month--but it's become a minor flood since Montreal.

the devil's microtones

There’s a bunch of narc of small d’s with this band among people I know who do/have done similar music.

LOL I had to re-read "narc of small d's" a few times before I parsed it, thought I was having a stroke for a min.

The conspiracy/Illuminati/Satanist angle that some of the haters are coming with is both hilarious and kind of depressing to me. The paranoia trip of the grossly unimaginative

the narcissism of small intervals

The most imaginative thing I've seen is that the band's music is designed to activate 5G and 6G implanted in people's bodies by the COVID shot.

ok, that's actually pretty good

My timeline for this is one or two protest signs outside the facility at the next show, two weeks until this shit starts to show up in English, more small protests at almost every show after that, some dipshit politician bringing it up in a month, and at least one assassination attempt before Volume 3 is released.

ok that's a bit bleak

Heres me thinking it'd be limited to a few 'virtuosos' saying theyd been doing this for years...

that's sweet there is a satanic panic about AdP, true sign of cultural relevance, bite the head off the microtonal bat

no one had conspiracy theories about Geese!

they did actually

oh yeah, but only boring “industry plant” conspiracy theories, not entertaining conspiracies like “their music will give you Morgellons”.

uh, did you already forget the CIA PsyOp conspiracy?

oh,that’s not a conspiracy theory ;)

unlike the other bands being mentioned, AdP is a live looping band and we've learned long ago that live looping is catnip for normies

Spaceheads are a live looping band, that's why I mentioned them. I'm not sure live looping is catnip for normies, but for obvious reasons, it does tend to produce songforms which are rather static harmonically, which is probably easier to digest for most listeners.

I really hate the word "normies" so condescending and lazy

I use it because it's preferable to "sheeple"

If you're pushing the envelope in terms of tonality or sonics then it probably helps to keep the rhythmic and harmonic structure fairly static, which live looping naturally lends itself to. So most people (notice I didn't say normies) probably like AdP for the same reason "Kind of Blue" is the most popular jazz album.

they sound a bit like Primus sometimes

I use the term "normie" without condescension

I'd even state that I use the term with love

I get the revulsion. There is sometimes a need for a word for people who aren't [x] obsessives when you're talking about [x] though ("casuals"? not sure if that's better), as in I think it's likely we're all normies in some domain or another

xp pls bring your rig to merrie (normie?) englande when you're all fixed up obv!

I thought they were called normans

I liked this essay

https://touchofallright.substack.com/p/angine-de-poitrine-could-only-hail

by an erstwhile ilxor iirc

Ohhh good shout out to fet.nat

excellent essay, if for no other reason that no one has ever told me about FIMAV until now—pretty mad I missed this year's edition

Yeah, FIMAV is great, though I haven't been in ages. Here's an old thread from the archives about it:

FIMAV 2005 Lineup announced

the live looping is i think what doesn't really work for me, it forces them into a more rigid structure that i don't think really suits this style of music well, or at least isn't what i'd really want from it

BTW, that audio interview that the writer claimed to not be able to find in that essay a few posts up is on YT, and has been there for months.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYQq153rLEg