Youth Lagoon
In 2023, Trevor Powers released the acclaimed Heaven Is a Junkyard, an album of warped Americana that brought his focus back home. “I realised everything worth writing about is happening inside my house or right next door,” he says. “There’s an eternity of secrets in the American suburbs.” With Pitchfork awarding it “Best New Music” and The Guardian dubbing it a “masterpiece,” Youth Lagoon’s first album in eight years pushed the project into a neo-western realm that is bot...
In 2023, Trevor Powers released the acclaimed Heaven Is a Junkyard, an album of warped Americana that brought his focus back home. “I realised everything worth writing about is happening inside my house or right next door,” he says. “There’s an eternity of secrets in the American suburbs.” With Pitchfork awarding it “Best New Music” and The Guardian dubbing it a “masterpiece,” Youth Lagoon’s first album in eight years pushed the project into a neo-western realm that is both deeply literary and musically vast, centred around an upright piano and static-coated electronics. In 2024, Youth Lagoon, the prized moniker of the Idaho-based songwriter, returns with the new single “Lucy Takes a Picture.