I was told about this band today and a coworker showed me a youtube video of what they're like.
My question is not a joke, but the existence of this band may be?
Help me understand? Wtf this is? Is this an attempt to troll the world that people have accepted as "rock music" so they kept going?
Is this "real music" and I'm the idiot?
It feels like elevator music for people in the "Beavis and Butthead" universe.
WTF IS HAPPENING?! (And no I'm not just talking about their absolutely ludicrous appearance, I'm talking about the whole package. The music sounds like LSD fueled song intros looped together without ever reaching a chorus, ever.
So, in a time where there's AI generated artwork from drawings, paintings, photos, videos, literature, and even music, we need this kind of absurd weird art because it clearly distinguishes itself as purely human-made.
Also, the technicality behind their music is insane. Have you ever heard of math rock? Essentially, music is built on time signatures or bar which are normally in times of 4, maybe 3 (the 4/4, 3/4 we see on a music sheet next to the clef symbol.) Sometimes the bar will be higher and go up to 16/8 for blues or rock n roll for example.
But Angine de Poitrine use all kinds of fucked up bars and switch several times mid-tune! Using math, essentially, they can switch from having 9 beats, then double to 18, then one third back to 6, then double back up to 12 then divide back into 4 or whatever. That's why it's sometimes hard to follow the beat. You gotta count the number of beats in one bar.
Add to that the microtonal guitar and bass where they add frets for notes between notes, and you now have several new notes that don't follow the standard octaves.
With the silly costumes and characters on top, which is fun because they don't take themselves seriously, which makes it very lighthearted in these very serious times, it really helps disconnect from the harsh reality.
So it's a combination of all that.