Montréal guitarist and producer Kee Avil returns with Spine, the follow up to her 2022 debut LP Crease, an intricately constructed, knife-edge take on avant-pop which garnered plaudits from outlets like The Wire, The Quietus, Mojo and Foxy Digitalis, picking up a Canadian Juno Award nomination and Bandcamp Album Of The Day and Albums Of The Year along the way.
Kee Avil’s music is both adventurous and intimate, intellectually challenging and emotionally resonant, and with her sophomore release Spine, she strips back her heavily textured compositions, opening up a much rawer sound. She calls it folk—and while traditionalists might scoff, this is urgent music that reflects the precarity of modern life, as well as the jarring mixture of electronic and real-world interactions that have become the fabric of our day-to-day experiences.
Avil says: “‘Gelatin’ sounds like rock and mud to me. It’s dense and heavy, viscous. It feels like it emanates from underground, underwater. It took a while for this song to come together – it started off with just voice and foley for a long time. When the beats were put in, it finally all glued together.”
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Kee Avil: Photo by Caro Etchart
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