Dead Gowns

How does one cope with the pang of desire? It’s the tender, sometimes volatile question that confronts Geneviève Beaudoin on her debut full-length as Dead Gowns. A deft lyricist with a sweeping range of poetic color and texture, Beaudoin paints her story in dark romantics, presenting a woman in the high summer of adulthood deciphering life’s capacity to fulfill desires or let them go painfully unmet. These cravings – to be touched, to be known, to have just one more encounter with someone lost to time – are a lacuna Beaudoin prods at insistently throughout the album’s twelve songs. “A tempered breakdown brings [“In the Haze”] to a crooning, craving crescendo and cements, It's Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded By Snow, as one of the year’s best artist introductions.” – Paste Magazine “It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded By Snow is a pensive, evocative exploration… offering an immaculate introduction to [Beaudoin’s] intimate storytelling. – KEXP “Not since Angel Olsen’s 2014 Burn Your Fire No Witness has an indie rock voice floored me so palpably…. There’s not a bad tune on here.” – No Expectations www.deadgowns.com