Recording: Kee Avil

Artist: Kee Avil

Song: Sponge

Recorded at Belljar Café (Track Could Bend #36), March 6, 2018.

Kee Avil - Sponge

It's always a happy occasion when you see an artist dazzle with an advanced grasp of a different vocabulary than you associate with them. Known as a talented avant guitar shredder on the Montréal scene, this project sees Vicky Mettler shifting into song mode. Her vox and guitar still boomerang into deconstructive adventures, but the whole thing is assembled into a deliberate form — even, as we hear here, the pieces stretch themselves out from their presentations on her excellent recent EP.

[Track Could Bend returns on Tuesday (May 1st) in a special "studio" edition featuring Jen Wardle & John Mark Sherlock, David Sait and Hank Powell (a.k.a. Karen Ng + D. Alex Meeks).]