Signed. Catalog Number: 198622871198 Color: Black Format: LP UPC: 198622871198 How does one cope with the pang of desire? It ' s the tender, sometimes volatile question that confronts Genevieve Beaudoin on her debut full - length as Dead Gowns. A deft lyricist with a sweeping range of poetic colour 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. Though never named outright, Beaudoin's home in Maine - and its ragged, granite - strewn coastline - is an evocative character inhabiting the album, a force even more implacable than Beaudoin's emotions. Also present is the acute awareness of time passing. Pulled from an Eileen Miles poem, the album's title, It's Summer, I Love You, and I'm Surrounded by Snow , evokes a feeling of disorientation and the inevitability of change. External and internal forces charge Beaudoin, her inner world shifting much like the dizzying change of the seasons. " We get swept up in the blizzard, and then we are set down in the hot sal ty haze of August, " she says, remembering the Maine winters of her childhood. By the album's end, Beaudoin holds her longing in the balance, no longer overcome but embodied. And if you listen carefully - these songs will pick you up and put you down again , transformed, raw, and satiated.