Youth Lagoon is back with another new song out now on Fat Possum Records, Youth Lagoon is the prized moniker of Idaho-based songwriter Trevor Powers who returns with a new single/video, “Lucy Takes a Picture.” A portrait of “salvation hiding in our wounds,” the song is a soul-stirring chronicle of love and narcotics…a triumph of American gothic imagination. “Once in a while there’s a song that feels like I’ve been trying to write it my whole life,” says Powers. “Lucy is one of those.” With a bent toward rural noir, Powers has found a home in a world where his personal journals and poetic confessions are indistinguishable from the twisted mythologies of habitual sinners and devout barflies. “My only concern now with music is bringing the inner world to life,” says Powers. “It’s not about making something better — it’s about making something true. Songs were a lot harder to write when I hated myself. When my soul changed, my music did too.”
“Lucy Takes a Picture” takes Powers’ devoted articulations of struggle and redemption to a new frontier. Written at Powers’ home in Idaho and recorded in Los Angeles with co-producer Rodaidh McDonald (Weyes Blood, The xx, Gil Scott-Heron), the song is guided by a choir of pizzicato strings, a bed of synth pads played through a shoebox tape recorder, and Powers front and centre singing about darkness, deliverance, and love with the ghoulish timbre of an apocalyptic lounge singer.
In 2023, Powers released the acclaimed “Heaven Is a Junkyard”, an album of warped Americana that brought his focus back home. He also reunited with his long time creative partner Tyler T. Williams for its music video.
After an eight-year hiatus from the project, Powers released his most recent Youth Lagoon album, “Heaven Is a Junkyard“, in 2023. It served as his fourth Youth Lagoon LP and the follow-up to 2015’s “Savage Hills Ballroom”.
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