Angine de Poitrine - Sarniezz [Instrumental]

Tix are 35$ at a venue 3 blocks from my house... Sold out :-(

Sweet

That singer needs to join the group... it is the missing piece. Also they are on bandcamp

The trend I see is people using AI to try to crank out instant hits. I think these guys went viral on youtube because they are very different, and also good.

Mmm, gonna disagree with you on this particular act. Of course that happens in certain cases. This was making the rounds with musicians and music tastemakers before influencers got to it. It's a bit, not a gimmick with AdP. Something can be organic and still make its way to garbage internet people (influencers, etc). It caused me pause when I first saw the KEXP video.

Not a gimmick. It's actually good.

Playing in elaborate costumes, simple design, while building songs on carefully gain staged pedals and then easily looping all harmonic parts, played by thoroughly rehearsed musicians ~~isn’t a gimmick.~~ attracts people too. It’s a concept set wrapped into a low budget concept show. You’re free to hate it, but to proclaim that you know why others like it is just non-sensical. Even if there are people who like it for the gimmick factor. Those are everywhere. You had said people think gimmicks are bad, but you’re tying it to “this is hype”.

this is cynical af man, word salad of social media analysis. the visual “gimmick” pulls people in but they stay for the music. the gimmick enhances the music and the music enhances the gimmick. they went for something and totally nailed it, don’t reduce two genuinely talented and clearly passionate guys down to some social media hatred nonsense and live a little

Musically, are they ‘unique’? No, it’s nearly impossible to find completely unique music. I’ve heard similar math rock, even performed by duos. To say it’s ‘boring’ and ‘derivative’ is nonsense though. Stop stating opinions like they’re a matter of fact. Sometimes a ‘gimmick’ is what brings bands to the table; Bowie, Daft Punk, Gorrilaz etc. In an age when music videos are dead and we have access to almost every song in the world, we should be looking for MORE creativity that draws people into actually going to gigs, not dismissing it purely as a ‘gimmick’

Everyone’s talking about them, but they only post this one song. I’ve never heard anything else by them. And yeah, their microtonal/atonal stuff reminds me of some Primus tunes, but these guys are way less compelling as a band. Edit: Just listened to their KEXP set. It gets boring fast. The whole thing kinda feels like layers of gimmicks. Idk.

I have a feeling they paid to have their content pushed on different platforms. Just like that one instrumental band that wears those beaded masks

What's irritating to me is that there are plenty of interesting unique bands it's just a lot of people don't take the time to spread their musical tastebuds a bit more. Thanks to their striking visual identity I think it helped a lot once they managed to get a s*** on KXCP and all of the "music reactors" spread it around it helped out eyes on it. Angine de poitrine seems to have captured a lucky lightning in a bottle though and I couldn't be more thrilled I found them about 4 months ago and I was entranced by their weird thing but ultimately realised how fun they were as musicians. And incredibly talented to loop on a dime like that microtonally no less But still. People need to learn to spread their wings more I think.

Nah, they apperared od KEXP lately and it generated very positive buzz, since their performacne was great.

This is one of the few organically viral things in recent memory, I saw friends posting about it enthusiastically before it even blew up. Get a grip.

885K views in 1 month? That's not astroturfing.

On the other hand I've seen so many posts in so many different places saying they've not been interested in any new music for a long time, or not this type of music in a long time etc etc, but something about this band has them hooked. I haven't been interested in 'guitar'-type music since around 1994. I've barely posted anything music-related here in the many years of being on Reddit (despite being a musician in the past) until coming across this band a few weeks ago.

I loathe that man and yet I felt compelled to watch his reaction. You can see he had no idea what was going on and just bobbed his head and emoted randomly.  

They have three shows in Toronto and the resale tickets are over $300.

I heard hints of Primus, Tool and Rage in some of their other music

So if they were a different band playing different music you'd like them?

I don’t usually like looping but they seem to hit the sweet spot for the number of times to repeat before switching it up.

I wasn't the only one who thought something was missing! Thanks for the downvotes 😝