Angine de Poitrine: Vol. I [SPECTACLES BONZAI]

Why you'll love it

Before the Polaris Prize and the viral KEXP session there was Vol. I, the 2024 debut where it all started. "Sherpa" lives here, and so does the polka-dotted lunacy that made two masked strangers from Saguenay impossible to ignore.

This edition

• Canadian pressing on Spectacles Bonzaï (cat# AP-01)
• Repressed several times to keep up with demand after the band's 2025 breakout

About the album

The first record from Montreal-by-way-of-Saguenay's Angine de Poitrine sounds like a fusion of Primus, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and the most absurd, boundary-pushing math rock that could ever emerge from the steaming depths of a Quebec basement.

The duo formed in 2019 and has played in full papier-mâché disguise ever since, giant noses and all. Vol. I came out in 2024; a year later their KEXP set blew up online, and suddenly everybody wanted to hear where this gloriously strange sound began. This is where.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Spectacles Bonzaï (cat# AP-01), first out in 2024.