“Spine”, Kee Avil | The duty

Listening to Kee Avil’s latest is quite a musical and cerebral expedition. There is indeed a lot of strangeness, something very intimate and delicate which resonates like a curious anti-beauty in this album. We thus plunge nonchalantly, and very deliberately, into a darkening of sounds, textures and voice, all raw, as Spine rings in our ears. The one who was nominated for a Juno for Crease, released in 2022, this time takes us into an infernal spiral of dissonant laments, made of less complex electronic and guitar compositions, but just as exhilarating, from which we can never really break away. The end of each song on the record summons a certain suffocating anxiety in us, and then we immediately ask for more — almost a relief. With titles like remember me, under And GelatinMontreal producer Kee Avil takes us on an emotional roller coaster ride that takes us into the most disturbing range of them.

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