Youth Lagoon—the project of Idaho-based singer-songwriter Trevor Powers—has announced a new album. Rarely Do I Dream follows his 2023 LP, Heaven Is a Junkyard, which marked Powers’ first Youth Lagoon record in eight years. Powers has also shared the latest single from Rarely Do I Dream: “Speed Freak” arrives after previously released album tracks “Football,” “Lucy Takes a Picture,” and “My Beautiful Girl.” The new song is paired with a music video directed by Powers’ longtime creative collaborator Tyler T. Williams. Check it out below.
Rarely Do I Dream is out February 21 via Fat Possum. Powers recorded the album with co-producer, mixer, and engineer Rodaidh McDonald. Throughout the album, Powers spliced snippets of audio from home videos he discovered in his parent’s basement in 2023. “What I was really consumed with was how much I could zoom in on my actual history,” he said, regarding the clips, in a press release.
Powers continued: “I wanted to really make someone feel like they were inside my living room in 1993, but rearrange the furniture a bit. Something about combining that level of hyperreality with fairytales of devils and detectives weirdly felt like the truest way to immortalize these pieces of my family.”
Trevor Powers will go on tour in support of the album, beginning in March. He’ll stay on the road until mid-May. See the Youth Lagoon tour dates below.
Read about Heaven Is a Junkyard at No. 42 in Pitchfork’s list of “The 50 Best Albums of 2023.”
Rarely Do I Dream:
01 Neighborhood Scene
02 Speed Freak
03 Football
04 Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)
05 Seersucker
06 Lucy Takes a Picture
07 Perfect World
08 My Beautiful Girl
09 Canary
10 Parking Lot
11 Saturday Cowboy Matinee
12 Home Movies (1989-1993)
Youth Lagoon:
03-27 Spokane, WA – The District Bar at Knitting Factory
03-28 Missoula, MT – Zootown Arts Community Center
03-29 Boise, ID – Treefort Fest
04-03 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater
04-04 Vancouver, British Columbia – Biltmore Cabaret
04-05 Victoria, British Columbia – Upstairs
04-06 Seattle, WA – Crocodile
04-08 San Francisco, CA – August Hall
04-09 Los Angeles, CA – The Regent
04-10 San Diego, CA – Casbah
04-11 Tucson, AZ – Club Congress
04-12 Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
04-14 San Antonio, TX – Paper Tiger
04-15 Austin, TX – Mohawk
04-16 Dallas, TX – Deep Ellum Art Co.
04-18 Nashville, TN – Exit/In
04-19 Atlanta, GA – Masquerade (Altar)
04-20 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
04-21 Washington, D.C. – The Atlantis
04-22 Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry
04-24 Brooklyn, NY – Warsaw
04-25 Jersey City, NJ – White Eagle Hall
04-26 Hamden, CT – Space Ballroom
04-27 Cambridge, MA – Middle East Downstairs
04-29 Montreal, Quebec – La Sala Rossa
05-01 Toronto, Ontario – The Axis Club
05-02 Detroit, MI – El Club
05-03 Cleveland Heights, OH – Grog Shop
05-04 Louisville, KY – Whirling Tiger
05-05 Indianapolis, IN – Hi-Fi
05-07 Chicago, IL – Outset
05-08 Milwaukee, WI – Vivarium
05-09 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon
05-10 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club
05-12 St. Louis, MO – Atomic Cowboy
05-13 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
05-15 Denver, CO – Marquis Theater
05-16 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Block Party
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