Trevor Powers chats about his real life inspired songs and how writing them helped him get through a tough year

“Sadness is a blessing,” sang Lykke Li, on her superlative sophomore album, ‘Wounded Rhymes’. And indeed a look at the music charts today puts paid to the notion of pop music being a shiny, happy beast. Two of the biggest hits of the year so far have been heartbroken odes to past loves (Adele’s “Someone Like You” and Lana Del Rey’s “Video Games”). A worthy addition to the lexicon of ecstatically sad albums (see also Perfume Genius and Coma Cinema) is the debut album from Boise, Idaho native, Youth Lagoon AKA 22-year old Trevor Powers. Preceded by the viral hit, ‘July’, ‘Year of Hibernation’ is an intimate ... article continues »
  
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