Bro no comments on this wonderful song😕

I love you for making this Trevor, youve catpured the sadness alot of us carry but cant explain when it started or how it got there.

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Yeasayer – Don't Come Close

PAINLESS

stabilise

Heaven Is a Junkyard

Idaho Alien

Forever Means

Nothing's Free

Alibi (Slowed & Reverb) - Mansionair

No Caffeine

Rarely Do I Dream

Football

Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory

Idiot Box

Neighborhood Scene

The Sleepless Mile

Jungle cicadas at Angkor Wat temples, Cambodia (low)

Post-War

Chinese Translation

Shields

Sleeping Ute

Fear Fun

Nancy From Now On

She Wants

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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Youth Lagoon

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