The most unlikely hottest band in the world have broken all the rules to create a mesmerising hypnotic trip of a music that normally would remain glued in the underground. Somehow and maybe perhaps of their own innate genius, they are blowing up big, which is very, very exciting… the polka dot French Canadian band are over in Europe in the autumn touring and the dates are selling fast…
The LTW review of the band’s second album said that…
‘Taking over the internet with music is no easy feat these days, even less so if your music is as angular as a mathematician’s lunch box. Add in a lack of a singer to sell or look at and you are essentially pushing your luck unless you have something to set you apart. Angine de Poitrine have two things and one of them is their music. The other is an aesthetic of such magnificent seeming simplicity that it is a marvel. Part Marcel Duchamp, part Frank Zappa and the nostalgic air of a million kids’ TV shows. Low culture meets high with a nod and a wink and the greatest alien funk of some future science fiction that you have ( n ) ever heard of.
Fabienk starts us off, as the sound of early Talking Heads falling down the stairs of a Parisian café zooms into view, impossibly rhythmic and jazz adjacent & hyper-focused, loops within loops swirl around each other before the brief moments of respite, then return slightly changed, a little more frantic, a little more distorted. It’s a potpourri of clashing sound, jazz-tinged solos appear like radio static and everything but the drums disappear until a very funky bassline and a nonsense vocal emerge blinking into the light, dancing away like an organic/analogue Daft Punk. If it eventually turns out that is exactly the case, it simply proves the Punk’s genius. You don’t need electronica to produce the insanely danceable. Krautrock via the self-belief of Joan of Arc, momentous and motorik.’
Read more of the review here
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