Kee Avil (ca), Congee Rats

avant pop | post industrial | experimental folk | electronic | art rock

Montreal producer Kee Avil crafts deconstructed songs that fuse guitar, voice, and electronic production with avant-pop, glitch, and experimental folk sensibilities. Crease (Constellation, 2022) was met with critical praise including Bandcamp's Best Albums of 2022. Her follow-up, Spine scored even higher, earning accolades from The Wire, Line of Best Fit, Der Spiegel (album of the week), The Quietus, Outside Noise, Uncut and Bandcamp's coveted Album of the Day where Kee Avil's work was compared to "a whispered secret of grave importance." Both albums received Juno nominations for Best Album Artwork. Her Crease Remix EP (Constellation, 2023) featured reworks by claire rousay, Cecile Believe, Pelada and Ami Dang.

Support: Congee Rats is Dong Zhou's solo project, which uses electronic music as a starting point for radical boundary-crossing. Between dark wave, alternative rock, hyperpop, experimental, and cinematic soundscapes, songs emerge that absorb punk energy as well as influences from traditional music.