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Rarely Do I Dream

    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 center as the neon road sign pointing home.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Neighborhood Scene
    2. Speed Freak
    3. Football
    4. Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)
    5. Seersucker
    6. Lucy Takes A Picture
    7. Perfect World
    8. My Beautiful Girl
    9. Canary
    10. Parking Lot
    11. Saturday Cowboy Matinee
    12. Home Movie (1989-1993)

    Youth Lagoon

    Heaven Is A Junkyard

      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 (2018’s Mulberry Violence and 2020’s 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 wasn’t sure if I’d 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 miracles—held together by Powers’ voice and an upright piano. Recorded in six weeks with co-producer Rodaidh McDonald (The xx, Adele, Gil Scott-Heron), Heaven Is a Junkyard is a work of absolute devotion. A portrait of the God-haunted American West. And a reminder that there is always love in the tall grass.

      STAFF COMMENTS

      Barry says: Brittle, reverberating piano and Powers' spellbinding vocals twist together into a deeply emotive journey, falling somewhere between slo-mo country, indie and electronica. Evocative throughout, and rich with melody and ambience.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Rabbit
      2. Idaho Alien
      3. Prizefighter
      4. The Sling
      5. Lux Radio Theatre
      6. Deep Red Sea
      7. Trapeze Artist
      8. Mercury
      9. Little Devil From The Country
      10. Helicopter Toy

      Youth Lagoon

      The Year Of Hibernation (10th Anniversary Edition)

        This year, Fat Possum celebrates the 10th anniversary of Youth Lagoon's debut album 'The Year of Hibernation.' 45rpm Double Cream Color Vinyl will include the album as well as 3 bonus songs. The artwork will be expanded into a gatefold vinyl with updated artwork and printed inner sleeves by Collin Fletcher

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Posters
        2. Cannons
        3. Afternoon
        4. 17
        5. July
        6. Daydream
        7. Montana
        8. The Hunt
        9. Bobby
        10. Ghost To Me
        11. Goodbye Again


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