“It absolutely blew my f**king mind”: Dave Grohl is getting on the Angine de Poitrine hype train
Angine de Poitrine are quickly becoming the hottest act in guitar town. The Quebec-based instrumental duo – known as much for their polka-dotted masks as for a sound that borders on the unearthly – are turning heads across the internet.
Fresh off the release of their second album, Vol. II, ADP are riding a wave of online buzz, with their February KEXP performance already closing in on 8 million views on YouTube.
And now, even Foo Fighters guitarist Dave Grohl has hopped on the hype train.
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Grohl shared his discovery of the duo during a recent interview with Logan Kelly on Logan Sounds Off. Asked about the music he’s been listening to lately, Grohl immediately gushes, “I just have to try to say this correctly because it was sent to me yesterday by a friend, and it absolutely blew my fucking mind.”
“It’s called Angine des Poitrines… And I don’t know how to explain it other than you just have to watch these people. And it’s all instrumental.”
Attempting to put the band’s setup into words, Grohl explains, “That person has a double neck that’s a bass guitar on the bottom and a guitar on the top. And you’ll see the bank of pedals that they’re stepping on. And they’re looping every one of these riffs. It’s so completely insane.”
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For the uninitiated, that part-bass, part-guitar beast of an instrument, as drummer Klek de Poitrine revealed in a previous interview with Noize, actually began as a DIY experiment.
“I built the first microtonal guitar we used myself,” he said. “I added more frets on a guitar with a saw. The moment we started playing it, we just laughed. But since I’m not a guitarist, I wasn’t using the instrument’s full potential.”
“So I brought it to [bandmate] Khn [de Poitrine], and I told him, ‘You have to try this, it makes absolutely no sense.’ Then right away, the moment we started playing with it, we just laughed, you know, because of the friction created and the proximity of the notes.”
Listen to Angine de Poitrine’s new album, Vol. II, below.
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