“They describe themselves as a Mantra-Rock Dada Pythago-Cubist Orchestra, and the band name translates to ‘angina of the chest’”: The microtonal music theory behind viral math-rockers Angine de Poitrine

This unclassifiable Quebecois duo is having a viral moment after their performance on KEXP. Angine de Poitrine were already saturating my social media feeds before Rick Beato shone a spotlight on them. My students at NYU are already tired of the video, but I am very much not.

So – who exactly are these people? Drummer Klek de Poitrine and guitarist/bassist Khn de Poitrine have been playing together for more than twenty years, mostly as a duo. They describe Angine de Poitrine as a “Mantra-Rock Dada Pythago-Cubist Orchestra”, and the band name translates to “angina of the chest”.