Kee Avil

Spine

Kee Avil's music is both adventurous and intimate, intellectually challenging and emotionally resonant. The Montréal guitarist and producer's 2022 debut LP 'Crease' 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. Its intricate construction, unnerving atmospheres, and knife-edge take on avant-pop prompted comparisons to early PJ Harvey, This Heat, and Gazelle Twin. With 'Spine,' Kee Avil 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. There's a hypnotic post-punk somnambulance to it all, using the repetition and fracturing of melodic phrases interwoven with delicate electronics to create curious and persistent hooks. While not a concept album, themes of time's passage, remembrance, and decay crop up across multiple tracks. Each track intentionally only has four elements - guitar, electronics, and two other instruments, with Kee's voice and guitar pushed to the front. Within this minimalist framework, the juxtaposition of beauty and discomfort that is key to the Kee Avil sound stands out in skin-prickling relief.

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Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release date
24-05-2024
Label
Item-nr
547621
EAN
0666561017811
Availability
Exp. 24-05-2024
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. FELT
2. THE IRIS DRY
3. REMEMBER ME
4. DO THIS AGAIN
5. FADING
6. GELATIN
7. SHOWED YOU
8. AT HIS HANDS
9. UNDER
10. CROAK