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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.’

The album 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.

Flesh Eater

Borne of a desire to bring darkness to light, Flesh Eater is a band that seeks to congregate those with hidden hunger, such that what hides deep within us can be released & soothed by music; by using religious language and aesthetic as a framework for acknowledging the internal contradictions which plague us, Flesh Eater’s sour-sweet art-pop expresses hope and love in the midst of cognitive dissonance.

Flesh Eater was formed in Nashville in 2015 and has been in constant transformation since, from their debut live EP that captured their beginnings as a psych-pop outfit to their 2021 industrial techno flavored studio session, peppered in between with notes of dark ambient, harsh noise, and catchy, electro-clash & post-punk-inspired art-pop, the Triune continuously showcases their versatility and adventurous, no-holds-barred spirit, all rooted in an inspiring love for what music is and could be.

Be not distracted, dear Votary; Flesh Eater is merely a simulacra of Their Deity, a Triune of Prophets featuring Zwil AR (they/them) on synths and vocals, Maxwell Zikakis (he/him) on bass & synths, & Blake Patterson (he/him) on drum kit & machines. Their upcoming debut LP will find You when You need It most; for now, the Triune has 8 Releases.

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