Kee Avil

Montreal producer Kee Avil crafts deconstructed songs blending guitar, voice, and electronic production with avant-pop, glitch, and experimental folk sensibilities. Her latest album, Spine (Constellation, May 2024), was Bandcamp’s Album of the Day and received widespread critical acclaim.

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’ while the Quietus applauded its restrained intensity ‘Spine simmers, sashaying close to eruption. Sounds worm around like squeezed gel’.

Expanding her sonic palette with intricate detail, Spine positioned Kee Avil as a distinct voice in experimental songcraft, evoking PJ Harvey, Eartheater, SOPHIE, and Lucretia Dalt—where Juana Molina meets Coil, or Grouper fuses with Autechre.

She has toured extensively, including Les Nuits Botanique, A Colossal Weekend, Pop Montreal, Sled Island, Ruhrtriennale, Le Guess Who?, and more. Her debut album Crease (2022) also received critical acclaim, and both Crease and Spine were Juno-nominated. In 2023, she released Crease Remixed EP with reworks by claire rousay, Ami Dang, Pelada, and Cecile Believe.