So the house that I used to live in was big into couch surfing. That’s where you join the website (www.couchsurfing.org), make a profile, and share your couch with travellers, or vice versa. At the time, Olenka and the Autumn lovers we playing in Fredericton, and ended up needing a place to stay. Of course the landlord offered them couches to sleep on. Since then they’ve played in Fredericton twice.

My point? I never got to meet them, and I was always too busy to see their shows, despite everyone telling me that I’d have liked them.

I do.

After receiving their albums through the mail I finally got to hear Olenka and the Autumn Lovers. There’s a lot of diversity, even on one album, in their music. And true as that may be, they pull it all together to make the album sound almost the same the whole way through. Not in a bad way either. The whole thing plays through like some awkward, mournful waltz, calming down for every other song to a slow, melody between Olenka and the guitar. Olenka’s voice in very nice in the most perculiar way, and makes for very interesting vocal tracks, and the musicians are all incredibly talented, and show it through out the entire album.

Another interesting fact is that the album cover, as you see in the picture, is all done by Olenka. The picture is a little hard to see, but when holding the album in you really see the detail going into it.

I hope that the next time they are through Fredericton I can get a chance to see them. It’s good music for sitting and watching the rain, though, I’ve never got to try that yet, I will make a point of it in the spring.

Either way, later.