Dead Gowns (Album Release)

Fri Feb 14 2025 at 07:30 pm to 11:59 pm UTC-05:00

Oxbow Blending & Bottling | Portland

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Dead Gowns (Album Release)
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Dead Gowns celebrates the release of their new record with a Valentine's Day show at Oxbow in Portland, ME.
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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 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. 

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 salty 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.


[$20 Tickets | Doors 730PM | Show 830PM]

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Oxbow Blending & Bottling, 49 Washington Avenue, Portland, United States

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USD 23.17

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