Gillian Chadwick is the latest in a long line of dreamers who bid listeners to follow them on their incantatory journeys, half seductive and half not caring if you like what they have to say. 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. This set of spooky, mesmerizing, minor-key folk songs possesses all the menace of death metal, albeit in its wispiest incarnation!