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Blue Skies

Bad Love

Lullaby

Make You Proud

Home

Walking On A Dream

Songs You Didn’t Realize You Knew

Satellite

Sun Giant

Mykonos

Open Season

Oracular Spectacular

Time to Pretend

The Year of Hibernation

So Long Forever

Live Well

This is the first single off my upcoming album, Songs For Moms.

Written and Produced by Jack Symes
Recorded and Mixed by Joe Costner and Spartan Recording

Jack Symes – vocal, guitar
Gregory Ackerman - bass
Andrew Jones - drums
Theo Fedronic - trumpet
Marc Fedronic - trombone
Megan Sexton - viola

Cool God

Gold Past Life

The Bottom of It

Your Light

MUSIC VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/X7cj88wsW9s

Naked

In 2016, Trevor Powers shut the door on Youth Lagoon. “I felt like I was in a chokehold,” he says. “Even though it was my music, I lost my way. In a lot of ways, I lost myself.”

Stepping back from the alias, Powers found personal transformation at his home in Idaho and released experimental tapes under his own name (2018’s Mulberry Violence and 2020’s Capricorn).

In October 2021, something changed the channel.

After taking an over-the-counter medication, Powers had a drug reaction so severe it turned his stomach into a “non-stop geyser of acid,” coating his larynx and vocal cords for eight months. “I saw seven doctors and multiple specialists. I lost over thirty pounds. No one could help me,” says Powers. By Christmas, he could no longer speak, turning to text messages and a pen and paper as his only ways to communicate. “I wasn’t sure if I’d ever be able to speak again, yet alone sing,” he says.

The growth that followed that nightmare narrowed Powers’ focus. Rather than writing about the world at large, he started writing about home. “Family, neighbors, and grim reapers,” laughs Powers. “I’ve always written about far away things. That was my way of running from home. But the best material has been right in front of me this whole time in Idaho.”

Recorded in six weeks with co-producer Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Adele, Gil Scott-Heron), Heaven Is a Junkyard is a work of absolute devotion.

“Youth Lagoon was never the chokehold,” he pauses.

“I was.”

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