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Autumn Eve
Album Title: Songs Like Letters
Release Date: August 2005
Rating: 4 stars
Genre: Acoustic/Rock
The title of Toronto-based autumneve’s Songs Like Letters pretty much sums up the entire album. It is a collection of melancholy but heartfelt songs that sound like letters to lost lovers and friends. The songs are sad but poetic confessions intertwined with melodic guitar, strings and keyboard.
Many of the songs on the album bring up images of nature. Tracks like “The Autumn Evening”, “Wind and Rain” and “I’m at Your Door”, not to mention the cover art, red flowers through a rain soaked window, put you in a place where love and hope have been lost, but feelings will always exist. That’s what these songs do; they make you feel something that music so often doesn’t give anymore.
From lengthy tracks, “Treecreeper” and “From Sunrise to Sunset” that let the music speak as much as the words, to the short and sweet “Desdemona” and “Something’s Gotta Give”, Songs Like Letters tells a story that maybe the listener won’t understand, but will definitely relate to.
For more information, visit www.autumneve.ca - Soulshine Magazine
Discography
Songs Like Letters - Released 2005
Monsters - EP - To be released 2007
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Forming in 2001, Autumn Eve has had string of successful shows in support of their debut LP and boasting a vibrant, growing fan base. With many great shows under their belts, they have had the opportunity to open up for Waxed Mannequin, Evans Blue, Birds Of Whales, State Of Sound and The Darns. Since this release in 2005 “Songs Like Letters”, the track “I’m At Your Door” was added to the drama series “Whistler” which is aired on CTV.
Matt Barbeau was recently interviewed on XM Radio and performed on air. Since this show, their single “Monsters” was added to the stations play list.
One band mate explains that Matt the lead vocalist and songwriter, is a “prolific guy when it comes to song writing”. With that said Matt Barbeau has gone on to win a songwriters competition for “ Songs Review” in the Durham region, where he was featured on Rogers Cable Network. This isn’t the first competition the band has won thus far. Continuing this stream of good luck, Autumn Eve was awarded free recording time through Metalworks Institute, where they submitted an electronic press kit, which was chosen from a panel of judges from the Entertainment Business Program. Autumn Eve is headed back into the studio at the end of March to work on their next album. There second release will hold emphasis to the evolvement of their music. They all agree that their music has grown tremendously since their first release and they are extremely excited to reveal this next creation.
This is a band to watch out for in eastern Canada's flowering independent music scene.
Photography provided by: Sai Sivanesan
www.saisivanesan.com
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