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| Youth Lagoon |
Trevor Powers was
born in San Diego, California, and raised in Boise, Idaho. He started composing
music while still in high school, and while in college in 2010 began recording
his songs in his bedroom, a kitchen, and a four-car garage. Powers took Youth Lagoon as his alias in 2010
and in 2011 posted his dream-pop music online to positive response. He released
his third album, Savage Hills Ballroom,
on September 25, 2015.
At Webster Hall's
Grand Ballroom tonight, Powers commanded the spotlight over his three
backing musicians. Hunched tightly over his keyboard for much of the
performance, periodically stepping away to work the audience from the edge of
the stage, he whispered, crooned and belted songs from his three albums. Much
of the music veered towards lo-fi experimentation, especially when the other
instruments were near inaudible and Powers unraveled his psyche in a high tenor
and falsetto over his electric piano and sampled dreamscapes. Even when the
band gave the songs a skeleton of muscular beats or lilting rhythms, Powers'
vocals rested in a spacey atmosphere, circling back for the choruses. Perhaps
because most of the lyrics drew from his anxiety disorder and other struggles
and troubles, the delivery of the performance seemed intimate and cathartic. If
a music fan was looking for happy rock and roll, however, this was not the
place to find it.
Visit Youth Lagoon at www.savagehillsballroom.com.
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