Autumn is upon us, even as many places are still experiencing summer’s final belches. Here, ostensibly from nowhere, dry brown leaves and acorns galore blanket our sidewalks, a sensory treasure trove for my 2-year-old son.
We covered Montreal singer/songwriter Sea Oleena’s last single, “If I’m”, a few weeks back. I actually referenced similar points of autumn, fallen leaves, and my son. So, I risk sounding repetitive here on her latest beauty, “Paths”, for which I am perfectly comfortable doing so.
Oleena trades in breathy, tenderly swelling folk-inflected dream pop, a structure tailor-made for this approaching time of year. Just as autumn – to me, the most beautiful season – slyly creeps into our lives often seemingly unannounced but ever so welcome, “Paths” tip-toes into existence upon a legato finger-picked guitar, Oleena’s vocals swirled into gauzy, billowed layers.
Oleena’s music is a quiet seashore as high tide washes in; it’s a tousled king bed covered in down comforters, it’s a mound of dry leaves growing leaf by falling leaf. It’s the awe-ridden, humbling moments witnessing a child’s discovery that seem frozen in time but ultimately are all too fleeting.
Shallow is due out on 30 September, courtesy of Lefse Records. Pre-order here.
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