The Door into Summer

When teenage imaginings transcend childhood's end and lodge with concrete ferocity within the sound world of adult reality, one can find a unique realm wherein dulcimers and glam-rock guitar frenzies manifest with uniform importance. The trick is knowing not to discern a difference. Gillian Chadwick understands this more than most Visconti acolytes. Her employment of the fantastic within Ex Reverie's epic confines heralds a return to a reality deeper than most modern folksinger neo-realists can manage to muster. In a post-'70s realm, the struggle is to circumnavigate irony without succumbing to blandness or facile dictations of woe. Ex Reverie's The Door into Summer maps that route with crystalline authority.