Youth Lagoon’s fifth album, “Rarely Do I Dream“, feels like being caught in the memory of a dream: hazy, removed, and slightly disorienting. Trevor Powers’ follow-up to “Heaven Is a Junkyard” is also ripe with trickling textures, from the delicate piano runs sprinkled across “Football” to the jazzy drumming on “Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas).” Powers keeps Youth Lagoon’s latest sounding emotionally familiar and musically alluring. Rooted in love and childhood memoir, ‘Rarely Do I Dream’ is a triumph of American gothic imagination — where storybook innocence dissolves into a radioactive billow of teenage drifters, drug-addled hustlers, and old-world folklore.
Drifting between propulsive electronica and hallucinatory rock songs, Powers’ singular voice always glows front and centre as the neon road sign pointing home.
released February 21, 2025
“Rarely Do I Dream”.
All songs written and performed by Trevor Powers (aka Youth Lagoon).
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