Essayist Will Francis took a close look at Angine de Poitrine, the Québécois experimental rock duo whose elaborately dissonant math rock has been quietly breaking the internet, and his conclusion is pointed: their music is so structurally unpredictable that generative AI simply can’t replicate it. As Francis puts it, AI is trained on the formulas that dominate modern music, and Angine de Poitrine have deliberately walked away from all of them. The ripple effect has been real, with YouTube musicians including Charles Cornell and a very exasperated Rick Beato both responding to fan requests to weigh in on the duo’s KEXP performance.