Kee Avil – Spine

Kee Avil

Spine

The latest from Kee Avil finds the Montréal producer exploring wide open spaces, decorating them with closely-miked field recordings and breathily diaristic recantations, finds Jon Buckland

Within Spine’s forty minute run-time, Kee Avil scampers across myriad references points from a broad array of modern musical masters. There’s the quiet exploration of Keeley Forsyth, Coil’s unsettling esotericism, and Lucrecia Dalt’s sensuality. We get creaking sounds akin to Gazelle Twin’s straining electronics, the delicate leanings of HTRK, Ronce-like ASMR, elements of Björk’s vulnerability, and, impressively, she hops between these various styles and approaches, whilst restricting herself to just four sound sources per song.

The hypnotic, droning guitar of album opener ‘Felt’ is played in an almost percussive manner. In a way where tone,…

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