(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Angine de Poitrine Edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2026-04-03 Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! Back at the dawn of the New Wave, in the late 1970s and 1980s, I discovered I had a taste for weird music. Young bands who endeavored to find a sound that distinguished themselves from the more conventional bands of the 1970s would use unusual chord progressions, or oddly tuned synthesizers, and provocative or off-the-wall subject matter. The bands Devo and the B-52s spring to mind, though there were others as well. Who could forget the Tom Tom Club’s “Genius of Love,” a song that has been repeatedly sampled and used in other songs over the decades? Well, there’s a new weird band on the horizon, and it’s a doozie. It a Quebecois (French Canadian) duo that call themselves Angine de Poitrine (rough translation: chest pain, though it can be more precisely translated to the diagnosis angina pectoris). A YouTube video of a concert broadcast by KEXP in Seattle has gone viral (see below). To date, it has racked up 7.1 million views. Their schtick is to dress in costumes and papier maché masks and claim the they’re aliens from another planet who have come to share their music. They call themselves Khn (on guitars) and Klek (on drums). Khn’s guitar is a custom-made double-necked guitar. The top neck is a standard electric guitar, while the one below is a bass. Beyond the costumes and the backstory, two aspects make their music weird. First, they like to use odd time signatures (e. g. 5/4, or 12/3), and then change them up mid-song. Second, the music is microtonal. If you take a careful look at the necks on the guitar, you’ll see the there are twice as many frets on them as usual, which makes it possible to play tones directly in between the twelve tones on the standard western musical scale. While using such microtones is pretty rare in western music, microtonality is quite common in Arabic and Indian music, and some of the songs Angine de Poitrine play do have an eastern flavor to them. However, if you’re not used to these microtones, it might make you a little seasick, at least at the start. Also, Khn has a pedal board with a few looper tracks, so that he can, say, lay down a bass track on one loop, a guitar track on a second loop, and then play a third melody against the two looping tracks. This way, a duo can sound like a much larger band. Now, this could all add up to musical chaos, but as a couple reactors who are up on their music theory have pointed out, all of the songs have identifiable keys on the western musical scale the the ear can hang on to. If it were fully atonal (à la Schoenberg), I would never have made it through the first song. This may be an acquired taste, but it’s so weird, I can’t help but love it. It is unexpectedly funky, and the band is extremely tight. It’s amazing that they can play so well in masks that clearly restrict their vision. I think Hubby is getting a little tired of me listening to it—I suppose I need to get a pair of earphones. x YouTube Video So is this the future of music or a flash in the pan? I suppose time will tell. Comments are below the fold. Top Comments (April 2-3, 2026): No nominations or highlights during this period. Top Mojo (April 1, 2026): Top Mojo is courtesy of mik! Click here for more on how Top Mojo works. Top Mojo (April 2, 2026): [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/3/2376276/-Top-Comments-Angine-de-Poitrine-Edition?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/