Youth Lagoon : Heaven Is A Junkyard (Ultra Clear Vinyl)

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 (2018s Mulberry Violence and 2020s Capricorn).

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 wasnt sure if Id 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.

With whispers of country, Heaven Is a Junkyard is mutant Americana in a world of love, drugs, storytelling, and miracl