Just received this email from AdP - Thoughts on what it could be? Another album already? Returning to their home planet? (NOOOO!)

Angine de Poitrine, the masked and ornately costumed band from Saguenay, Que., has won the 2026 Polaris Music Prize.

The anonymous duo received the accolade and $30,000 for their second album, Vol.II.

[...] Angine de Poitrine also took home the song prize, a joint award from SOCAN and Polaris that goes to the best Canadian song of the year, beating out Charlotte Cornfield, Pup, Charlotte Day Wilson, Patrick Watson and Martha Wainwright.

The band's song Fabienk won the $10,000 prize, as voted by the Polaris jury.

Related videos:

Announcement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbxJFgsMqKg

Fabienk @ Polaris: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWdTYfoq9t0

Quoting from the great commentary by mediaevalfishsandwich:

Khn breaks a string.

The assistant is a general tech, not a guitar tech, he tries to pull the remainder of the string out of the capstan with his Leatherman, not realising that the string is locked/clamped. Khn eventually unlocks the machine head (thumbwheel on rear) 00:24, the tech is then able to remove the string. Tech replaces string, and winds it on as if it is a conventional machine head (multiple wraps). After tech finishes, Khn relocks the machine head 02:04. Throughout the entire process, Khn keeps playing with his RingerBringer on max.

One might infer that they don't have a roadie, and they don't always have a backup guitar (or prefer to change string rather than change guitar?).

Either way, even a string change is entertaining.

Hell yeah!

Shitty quebec french for "you farted microtonally Klek!"

EDIT : This fell off the back of know your meme