Dead Gowns - Vegas Dead Gowns

Remembering it over and over again: the way it happened in Vegas, the way beginnings spill over onto endings. Genevieve Beaudoin, the Portland, Maine-based songwriter, went to Las Vegas in the summer of 2021 to help a close friend move and start a new life there. But buried within that newness, there was an old and gradually widening fracture—and in that city, the friendship ended.

We don't as easily expect or extend the same awareness to close friendships as we do romantic relationships, though they cutjust as deep and hold up just as much of our sense ofbelonging and mattering. Feeling raw and unraveled, Beaudoin realized these were songs she needed to hear, as much as she needed to write. Back home in Maine, she began crafting her second full-length album as Dead Gowns.

Recorded in a farmhouse at the foot ofthe White Mountains with Beaudoin's long-time partner Luke Kalloch, and produced by Sam Kassirer and Colin Lester Fleming, Vegas is a series of raw, smoldering songs that suddenly gape. It is an album that watches grief move, point by point. Every track blurs place and time, as memory and self, seed and fruit, "hardcore and wellness" become refracted and indissoluble.