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It’s great to think there is a new guitar hero on the block and even better that no one knows who he is. Angine de Poitrine are, for now, an anonymous band: two men from Quebec, with folk-style monikers (Khn de Poitrine and Klek de Poitrine), their instruments a set of drums and a Stratocaster guitar that has been welded on top of a Fender Precision bass, both models customised using a hand saw to create twice as many frets as usual, and therefore twice as many notes. There is also a loop pedal at work – an instrument in itself – operated by the long, bony foot of guitarist Khn: a foot painted with the same black and white polka dots as his bony hands and ceremonial head box.

At the Troxy in east London’s Limehouse, one night on a UK and US tour that has sold out, they begin on opposing podiums, facing each other, bobbing ritualistically from the knees and communicating by making triangle shapes with their hands.…