Trying to explain Angine de Poitrine to somebody unfamiliar with them still feels faintly impossible. Somewhere between prog experiment, absurdist performance art and sweat-soaked dance music ritual, the anonymous “microtonal cardboard duo” have spent the last two years building one of the strangest and most fervent cult followings currently bubbling through underground music.
Now that momentum is becoming impossible to ignore. Following overwhelming demand, Angine de Poitrine have expanded their already sprawling 2026 North American run with a huge batch of additional headline dates, including first-ever performances in several US cities and a two-night stand at Brooklyn Bowl in New York this November.
The newly announced dates stretch from Denver’s Ogden Theatre through to Los Angeles’ Wiltern and Oakland’s Fox Theatre, further cementing the sense that what once looked like a niche experimental curiosity has evolved into something much larger and far harder to categorise. Alongside headline shows, the duo’s increasingly surreal schedule also includes festival appearances at Fuji Rock, Levitation, Manchester Psych Fest and End Of The Road, plus a one-night-only support slot for Jack White in Toronto this July.
Part of the fascination around Angine de Poitrine comes from the tension between technical complexity and physical immediacy. Their music is built from looping microtonal guitar figures, asymmetrical rhythms and relentless repetition, but the result lands less like an academic exercise and more like a rave collapsing into a prog-rock séance. Tracks mutate gradually, grooves tighten and release, and entire songs seem to spiral outward from a single hypnotic riff.
Live, that intensity has translated into rapidly growing crowds and near-mythological online attention, particularly following the duo’s Live on KEXP session, which has now amassed more than 13 million views. It’s easy to understand why audiences latch onto it. There’s something strangely liberating about music this intricate still feeling entirely bodily. Even at their most mathematically disorienting, Angine de Poitrine sound locked into movement rather than precision for its own sake.
The expanded tour announcement also arrives alongside news that both Vol. I and this year’s critically acclaimed Vol. II will finally receive global physical releases on vinyl and CD beginning June 12. The latter album pushed the duo’s sound further into acid techno and disco territory without abandoning the dizzying microtonal structures that first drew attention to the project.
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