Angine de Poitrine debuted a new, still-untitled instrumental at History in Toronto on Thursday night, introducing a third masked character in their signature polka-dot uniforms who delivered a triangle solo midway through the song. The microtonal guitar-and-drums duo lifted the curtain on the new figure just two songs into the set, with fan-captured video of the moment now circulating online.
Khn and Klek de Poitrine usually perform their raucous math-rock as a duo. On Thursday, they made room for a third.
The skinny, fast
- The new character wears a polka-dot variation on Khn and Klek’s outfits, a boxy headpiece with two yellow points rising from it, a long black nose like Khn’s, and wide-legged pants — and speaks in the same distorted alien voice the duo uses, Consequence reports.
- Klek introduced the visitor in the duo’s own secretive invented language before the three launched into the new song, per JamBase, whose reviewer Scott Bernstein filed the initial report early the following morning.
- The track has no confirmed title or release date; a Reddit-circulated theory that it’s a theme for a Québécois TV show remains unverified.
The triangle player did not solo on arrival. The masked visitor waited until midway through the instrumental before firing off a flurry of strikes — then receded, chiming in here and there as Khn and Klek picked the groove back up through the ending. JamBase described the tune as funkier than some of the duo’s heavier material, with a few proggy turns along the way.
As the song ended, one fan could be heard on the recording asking, “So, what just happened?” Which is, frankly, the intended effect.
The set list told its own story
Two songs in, three figures on stage — but the rest of the night came almost entirely from the duo’s recorded catalog. Khn and Klek opened with “Angor” and “Yor Zarad,” both from Vol. II, including the penultimate “Fabienk,” JamBase reported. Three came from Vol. 1 — “Ababa Hotel” and set closer “Sherpa” among them — with setlist data credited to setlist.fm.
Why a mystery triangle player travels further than a single
Consequence frames this as the Angine de Poitrine universe expanding, and the outlet’s own September review of the band at New York’s Le Poisson Rouge called the live show “a weird, wonderful thing to see.” That framing matters for how the band is positioning itself heading into its largest venues yet.
The unconfirmed Reddit speculation about a TV-theme connection is worth flagging precisely because it’s unconfirmed. Consequence explicitly reports that neither the track’s purpose nor its official name is settled. Treat the TV theory as exactly what it is: fan inference, not band announcement.
Where the band goes from Toronto
The tour rolls on tonight at Impérial Bell in Quebec City, then builds toward some of the duo’s biggest shows yet: three straight nights at Brooklyn Steel in mid-November, and — circling back — a return to Toronto on July 18, 2027 at RBC Amphitheatre as part of the band’s 2027 world tour, per JamBase.
| Date | Venue | City | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 6, 2026 | Impérial Bell | Quebec City, QC | Next show on the current leg |
| Nov 14, 2026 | Club Soda | Montreal, QC | One night |
| Nov 16–18, 2026 | Brooklyn Steel | Brooklyn, NY | Three nights |
| July 18, 2027 | RBC Amphitheatre | Toronto, ON | Return to the debut city |
That Brooklyn Steel run — three shows on the 2026 leg — is where any new character introduction would face its true test: does the third polka-dot figure reappear, or was Toronto a one-night reveal? Neither source reports the guest joining the tour routing, so the honest answer is that nobody outside the band knows yet.
Angine de Poitrine introduced a new band member and debuted a new song during their show in Toronto on Thursday night. 🎥: @cetincem pic.twitter.com/VBQ0qYZVDx
The gap between what’s seen and what’s said
Credit where it’s due: the duo announced nothing in advance. The character arrived unannounced, was introduced in an invented language most of the audience couldn’t parse, played roughly half a song, and left with its identity — on stage and in the lore — intact. The one piece of communication the band offered came through Klek’s pre-song introduction, in a language the duo keeps for itself.
What remains open, plainly: the song’s title, its release plans, whether the TV-theme theory holds, whether this character recurs, and whether it joins the 2027 run that brings the band back to Toronto next July. When more will be revealed is unknown — just as the new song’s title remains unconfirmed — leaving fans only to speculate about what the masked triangle player might do next.
The next dated event on the record is tonight’s show at Impérial Bell in Quebec City.
