“It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we’re alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind ...

The piercing clarity of Youth Lagoon’s third album, Savage Hills Ballroom, feels like a reaction to the muffled bedroom ambience and warped kaleidoscopism that defined Trevor Powers' earlier ...

Savage Hills Ballroom, Trevor Powers’ third album as Youth Lagoon, exists because of coincidence but, more importantly — and tragically — because of death. In the summer of 2013, while in London ...

You really can’t say Youth Lagoon has ever made the same album twice. Trevor Powers’ 2011 debut The Year of Hibernation was sonically and literally a bedroom pop album that he made mostly by himself, ...

Last Friday Youth Lagoon gave out free 7-inch singles at select record stores featuring the new song “The Knower.” The records also included a handwritten URL that led to a new website ...

Savage Hills Ballroom, however, combines and strengthens Youth Lagoon’s best elements. Powers counters abstract lyrics with jarring instrumentation (“No One Can Tell”) and puts evocative storytelling ...

When I first heard Youth Lagoon’s debut album, “The Year of Hibernation,” it sounded like a message in a bottle. It was a piece of art created by someone who had emerged from youthful isolation only ...

Trevor Powers, the creator and leader of the dream pop group Youth Lagoon, has journeyed a long way from the home recorded closet-tracks of “The Year of Hibernation,” the songwriter’s 2011 debut.

Maybe it’s the time of year, or maybe it’s the time of man, or maybe it’s both, but Youth Lagoon’s third album, Savage Hills Ballroom, has a touch of existential spookiness about it. The title alone ...

Youth Lagoon released free 7" singles containing new song "The Knower" today at select record stores. The 7" features a handwritten URL which leads to this website, announcing Savage Hills Ballroom, ...

Youth Lagoon (aka Trevor Powers) is releasing his third album, Savage Hills Ballroom, next Friday (September 25) via Fat Possum. Now you can stream the whole thing below via NPR First Listen.