Polka-dotted Timeline
2005
Khn and Klek’s friendship dates back to "the mid 00s" when, in their early teens, they met through a mutual friend.
2012/13
Then, one day:
- “when Klek was living in Montreal, he called Khn, living in Rimouski, more than 300 miles away. Khn had been sending him clips of his jams. “He said: ‘That was actually pretty good,’” Khn recalls. “‘You know, we could have started a band.’ Sometimes you just feel like, hey! I could have done this?” He mimics the penny dropping: “Oh, I could do this, it’s not too late.”
- “When Klek said that, Khn recalls, “I was like a puddle of gas, and I just needed that spark. That’s when I showed up at his mother’s place on Monday at 7am and I spent the entire week there grinding away: let’s do it now, because maybe tomorrow he’s gonna say maybe not.””
2019
Angine de Poitrine begins to take shape: Now both back in Saguenay, where they grew up, Khn and Klek's human forms are asked to play two gigs within a couple of weeks at the same venue.
Their solution to not being recognised as the same group at their second gig?
Polka-dot, papier-mâché costumes.
Klek and Khn are 'born'!
2022
Three short years later, their former band recedes to make way for them to focus on Angine de Poitrine.
2024
Another two years later, they release their first album, Volume I.
2026
Thursday 5 Feb 2026
KEXP’s YouTube video of their performance at ESMA in Rennes, France, during Trans Musicales 2025 goes viral – accumulating millions of views (21 million as of the end of October 2026).
Sunday 8 March 2026
Klek and Khn make a Sunday night appearance on French-Canadian talk show “Tout le monde en parle.” The interview was broadcast on ICI Radio-Canada Télé, the French-language flagship television network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).
Sébastien Collin, owner of AdP’s label Spectacles Bonzaï and the band's manager, later reflected that this had both a positive and negative effect on the band's publicity, reaching "too many people":
- “This Tout le monde en parle interview was fun to make and a lot of people were really proud," Collin says. "I'm thinking of the local scene in Quebec, which I'm part of. Having a band of the local scene, doing Tout le monde en parle and doing a performance, it was a nice moment of TV, a really nice moment. A lot of people were really proud. But yeah, it reached out to too many people."
- – (Source: Exclaim, June 2026)
Friday 8 May 2026
Perhaps not wanting to repeat this, the band gives just a single interview in the UK, with The Guardian’s Laura Snapes, and decides they don’t need to do any more …at that moment.
As Larissa Souline, the band’s publicist, said about this decision during the interview for Exclaim:
- "It's just about being conscious and nuanced and doing what's best for the band. We have to ask, 'Is it worth it? Do we have something more to say about this? Or is it the same thing that we've repeated in 10 [conversations]?'"
Sunday 21 June 2026
Also while in the UK, Khn and Klek perform their single Sarniezz on the BBC's Later... with Jools Holland.
To Be Continued...
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