℗ 2023 Fat Possum Records
| Released | June 9, 2023 |
| Duration | 34m 33s |
| Record Label | Fat Possum |
| Genre | Rock (Alternative) |
Heaven is a Junkyard
Youth Lagoon
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
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1.1
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Rabbit
Youth Lagoon |
3:36 | |||
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1.2
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Idaho Alien EXPLICIT
Youth Lagoon |
3:23 | |||
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1.3
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Prizefighter
Youth Lagoon |
2:41 | |||
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1.4
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The Sling
Youth Lagoon |
3:33 | |||
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1.5
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Lux Radio Theatre
Youth Lagoon |
2:44 | |||
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1.6
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Deep Red Sea
Youth Lagoon |
3:24 | |||
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1.7
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Trapeze Artist
Youth Lagoon |
3:30 | |||
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1.8
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Mercury
Youth Lagoon |
4:13 | |||
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1.9
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Little Devil from the Country
Youth Lagoon |
2:41 | |||
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1.10
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Helicopter Toy
Youth Lagoon |
4:48 |
"Trevor Powers has long shown a penchant for reinvention, but his first album as Youth Lagoon in eight years feels like a homecoming; he’s never sounded so confident or at peace with himself."
- Pitchfork
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).
In October 2021, something changed the channel.
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. By Christmas, he could no longer speak, turning to text messages and a pen and paper as his only ways to communicate.
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. “I’ve always written about far away things. That was my way of running from home. But the best material has been right in front of me this whole time in Idaho.”
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.
“Heaven Is a Junkyard is about all of us. It’s stories of brothers leaving for war, drunk fathers learning to hug, mothers falling in love, neighbors stealing mail, cowboys doing drugs, friends skipping school, me crying in the bathtub, dogs catching rabbits, and children playing in tall grass [...] Heaven is a junkyard, and it’s my home.”
- Trevor Powers
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Fat Possum Studio Masters
Tracks 1-10 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
Tracks 1-10 – 44.1 kHz / 24-bit PCM, mastered in 96 kHz / 24-bit
| Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -0.30 -0.30 to -0.30 | -12.65 -15.13 to -11.60 | -10.77 -12.40 to -9.60 | 7 5 to 9 | |
| 1 | Rabbit | -0.30 | -11.74 | -10.6 | 6 |
| 2 | Idaho Alien | -0.30 | -12.68 | -10.7 | 7 |
| 3 | Prizefighter | -0.30 | -12.29 | -10.1 | 6 |
| 4 | The Sling | -0.30 | -13.59 | -11.6 | 6 |
| 5 | Lux Radio Theatre | -0.30 | -15.13 | -12.4 | 9 |
| 6 | Deep Red Sea | -0.30 | -12.84 | -10.9 | 8 |
| 7 | Trapeze Artist | -0.30 | -12.36 | -10.5 | 6 |
| 8 | Mercury | -0.30 | -12.01 | -10.4 | 6 |
| 9 | Little Devil from the Country | -0.30 | -11.60 | -9.6 | 6 |
| 10 | Helicopter Toy | -0.30 | -12.29 | -10.9 | 5 |