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Canadian experimental, post-punk, avant-pop, electronic act Kee Avil released its debut full-length Crease, on 11 March via Constellation Records. The release got accompanied by a video for the "HHHH" track.
For the past few months, Kee Avil, a project led by Montréal producer and guitarist Vicky Mettler has been sharing pieces of the puzzle, and it's genuinely exciting to be able to say the release day has finally come. Crease in did is a puzzle, meaning both "an enigma" and "a game designed to test one's ingenuity".
Crease is a singular expression of fractured dream logic concretized in chiselled postpunk guitar, sinuous low-end electronics, a panoply of organic and digital samples creating alternately twitchy and propulsive rhythm, and the anxious intimacy of her finely wrought lyricism and vocals. Bound by an outstanding production sensibility throughout, Crease unfolds one oblique earworm hook after another, with compositional innovation anchored to an inscrutable and compelling voice across ten songs of tremendous and imaginative sonic detail.
Kee Avil on its work: "Songwriting, to me, is like sculpting. It stems from an initial word, emotion or sound, which I then build on, moulding it into a more refined shape, glued into an artificial structure. Other times, my role is to peel it, scrape at its exterior, to reveal its natural state and its part within the whole. I’m led by these initial ideas; not to polish but to translate abstraction into sound and imagery. This process of decoding can be tedious; other times it’s immediate, each idea giving birth to another, together building their own cohesion. I like raw, tumbling sculptures, sometimes held together by nothing more than intent".
Kee Avil on "HHHH": "'HHHH' is like a lime-flavoured ice cube numbing my tongue". Try it - it's right below. Link
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