In our first July cover story, we spoke with Youth Lagoon (trevorpowersss) about going to hell and back and arriving on the other side with 'Heaven Is a Junkyard,' a monument of brotherhood, grief, survival and spirituality.
into 2016 and then step away from Youth Lagoon. There was no timetable for his return, no assurance that he’d even make another record under that name ever again. “At that time in my life, it felt so fruitless,” Powers says. “It felt like this thing that I could no longer identify with, mostly because I was flailing a lot as a person and I was trying to figure out who I was.
There’s a cresting beauty of Boise unfurling within the soundtrack, as he makes sense of the beauty in his immediate grasp. In a city burgeoning with great underground artists not gridlocked within a music community overrun by too many voices, Powers was able to find his own niche without being inundated by others. He’s making art outside the system, avoiding getting so consumed with other peoples’ energies that he is unable to recognize his own.
And, like many great 20th century writers, there are pieces of him in each character he creates—whether it’s a composite of a neighbor, a brother or someone who is 100% fictional.visualizes a similar barren prairie as something from a Cormac McCarthy or Annie Proulx book, or the world-building songwriting of Tom Waits and Nick Cave, and Powers brings a similar type of curiosity to the work.
In late 2021, a routine checkup with his doctor ended in misery, as Powers was ordered to take an over-the-counter medication for a stomach pain that had been dulling for a few days. It was going to be a two- or three-week ordeal, but, on the 11th day, everything quickly took a turn for the worse. “I woke up and my mouth was on fire, it was full of stomach acid. My throat, I could barely talk. I had no idea what was going on,” he says.
“I had gone to this point where I had been in, what felt like, the depths of hell for so many months, that there was a switch that flipped inside of me where, suddenly, everything that I had feared my whole life—me being such an anxious person and being so wired tight in my body my whole life—was finally coming true. And, in a way, it feels like it cured me of that.
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