In an Age of Gimmicks, More Bands Should Be Like Angine de Poitrine

Let’s talk about Angine de Poitrine, the Canadian sentient polka dots who turned some local momentum into international virality and then a world tour — the kind of big trek that sustains a middle-class lifestyle, at least for a little while, even if their parents aren’t Wikipedia blue. While we’re at it, let’s also say some of the quiet parts out loud about trying to make it as a musician in this image-obsessed age. Music has many metas, but there are a few things that seem to help aspiring artists no matter what. It helps to work hard and have talent. It helps to perform in the most popular genres of music. It helps to be insanely good looking. Lots of things probably help, but today, there are more active musical acts than at any other point in history, and so working hard and having talent is rarely enough. Find Angine de Poitrine Tickets Here Angine de Poitrine play instrumental prog and math rock. That’s a hard sell even if you look like Harry Styles, and while I’m not going to spend too much time on their rumored real identities (spoiler: it’s another Quebecois math rock duo, locally respected but never well known), they probably don’t look like Harry Styles. But as Angine d...