Write this down: Savage Hills Ballroom is going to have a sizable presence on end-of-year “Best Of” lists. Youth Lagoon (a.k.a. 26 year-old Trevor Powers) stripped away the instrumental excess and ...

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 ...

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, ...

The music of Trevor Powers, aka Youth Lagoon, is sad. His latest album, “Savage Hills Ballroom,” begins like this: “My legs are limp/ My shoes are cold stone/ All I want is for you to come back home.” ...

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.

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 ...

Today 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 leads to a new website ...

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.