︎︎︎C. Schmidt   E. Angell ︎︎︎

KEE AVIL

Montreal producer Kee Avil combines guitar, voice, and electronic production into deconstructed songs informed by a distinctive blend of avant-pop, glitch, post-industrial and experimental folk sensibilities. 
        Her latest album Spine was released on Constellation in May 2024 as Bandcamp Album of the Day, garnering widespread critical accolades. The Line of Best Fit declared ‘Spine affirms Kee Avil’s status of an aesthetics and production virtuoso comparable to Jlin or SOPHIE – producing a dripping, cavernous version of glitch slammed with manipulations.’ while Uncut described it as ‘Deeply intimate and intensely unsettling… like an alien lifeform flexing its mandibles.’ Spine was featured in The Wire, stating ‘Kee Avil's skeletal grooves hit with an urgent intimacy’ and the Quietus applauded its restrained intensity ‘Spine simmers, sashaying close to eruption. Sounds worm around like squeezed gel.’
       Spine expanded Kee Avil’s sonic palette with intensive detail, revealing a compelling new voice in experimental songcraft, where touchstones include PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE and Lucretia Dalt; where Juana Molina collabs with Coil, or Grouper melds with Autechre.
        Kee Avil performed extensively in solo and duo configurations, playing at Les Nuits Botanique, A Colossal Weekend, Sled Island, Ruhrtriennale, Le Guess Who?, Guelph Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival and FME among many others. 
        Her debut album Crease was released in 2022 to critical acclaim, including a Juno Award Nomination. The Crease Remixed EP was released in 2023 featuring reworkings by claire rousay, Ami Dang, Pelada, and Cecile Believe.

“Both abrasive and enticing” - The Wire (2024)
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"A whispered secret of grave importance." - Bandcamp Album of the Day (2024)
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“An extraordinary artist whose second attempt is even more impressive than the first.“ - Der Spiegel (2024)  

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“Spine affirms Kee Avil’s status of an aesthetics and production virtuoso comparable to Jlin or SOPHIE”  - The Line of Best Fit (2024)

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“An off-kilter pop song driven by Avil’s visceral vocal expressions, clawing and pleading for something that seems out of reach“ - BackSeat Mafia (2024)
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“ The tension paints Kee Avil’s debut in a mesmerizing landscape”. - Bandcamp Albums of the Year (2022)
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"If you're a fan of the more experimental edges of PJ Harvey, Bjork and Grouper, you're gonna love this." - Mary Ann Hobbs, BBC Radio 6 (2021)

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    Videos
Gelatin 
Felt

See, my shadow 

saf 

Okra Ooze
HHHH - Live
Thinkstill -  Live 

And I -  Live 

I too, bury - Live 

    

    Discography
Label: Constellation Records

2024: Spine

2023: Crease Remixed 

2022: Crease
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2018: Kee Avil EP (Black Bough Records)

 

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    Press:

Bandcamp Album of the Day - Spine

The Line of Best Fit
The Quietus
The Wire
BBC 
Le Devoir (FR)
Exclaim!
Freq 
Fifteen Questions
Aural Aggravation
Der Spiegel (GE)
Impatto Sonoro (IT)
BackSeat Mafia
Foxy Digitalis
Bandcamp Album of the Day - Crease 
Le Canal Auditif (FR)

    Contact:
Management: Amélie Malissard

Booking (EUR):  Ricky & Giorgio (Swamp Booking)

Label: Constellation Records 

Press (UK/EUR): Lauren Barley (Rarely Unable)

Press (USA/CAN): Mark Trecka (Clandestine)

    Photo Credits:
Fatine-Violette Sabiri

Caro Etchart
Lawrence Fafard
Green Yang
Jelmer De Hass
Jaden Scholes

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