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Youth Lagoon was the outlet for Boise, Idaho's
Trevor Powers' most personal hopes and fears, which he set to dreamy yet tenacious lo-fi pop.
Powers posted his first
Youth Lagoon song online in May 2011, sparking buzz that resulted in a deal with Fat Possum Records. His first album,
The Year of Hibernation, dealt with psychological dysphoria and arrived that September. The more expansive
Wondrous Bughouse, which drew comparisons to vintage
Pink Floyd and
the Flaming Lips, and revolved around "the struggle between the physical and the spiritual world," was released in March 2013.
Powers then decamped to England to work with co-producer
Ali Chant at Toybox Studios in Bristol. The results became
Savage Hills Ballroom,
Youth Lagoon's third studio long-player, which dropped in 2015. On February 1, 2016,
Powers announced the end of the
Youth Lagoon project. ~ Heather Phares