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SHOW PREVIEW: Trevor Powers

While U Street Music Hall regularly hosts talented up-and-coming acts, it isn’t every day that the venue gets to reintroduce an artist as brilliant as Trevor Powers. When Powers wraps up his US tour at U Street Music Hall on October 19, he will do so under his given name for the first time in his musical career.

Powers performed over the past decade under the moniker Youth Lagoon, releasing three psychedelic indie-pop albums, before abruptly ending the project in 2016. After a tense hiatus, Powers released a new track and a handwritten letter addressed to his fans earlier this summer. The statement detailed the internal juxtapositions that he, like everyone, struggles with: peace and chaos, joy and fear, love and hate. Soon after, his album Mulberry Violence was announced for release on August 17. He announced it in the form of a second letter, explaining the dichotomous album title and two new tracks, “Ache” and “Plaster Saint.”

Based on the morsels that Powers has shared so far, the album will follow a completely different musical route than Youth Lagoon. The new singles trade the hazy ambience of old for an amalgam of eclectic sounds and musical influences bundled up in pop sensibilities.

- Daniel Martchek

Trevor Powers plays U Street Music Hall on October 19 — tickets available here.

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We mourned the departure of Youth Lagoon in 2016 after having spent most of the decade addicted to Trevor Powers’ music, which evolved from his early hushed, intimate bedroom pop on The Year Of Hibernation to experimental and psychedelic art pop on his latter two albums. The brilliance of Youth Lagoon’s music was undeniable, and we feared we wouldn’t hear from Powers for a very long time despite the fact that we knew there was no way such a gifted mind would stay silent forever. We’re immensely excited that Trevor Powers has debuted his solo project this year, and he’s now announced his debut solo album too, alongside two fresh new tunes that sees him exploring a more slinky intoxicating sound that reminds us of Alt-J, Glass Animals, Slenderbodies, and the like. Stream Ache above, a sooty broiling, intricately mesmerizing odyssey for the ears with creeping strings and slithery beats. Also accompanying the track is Plaster Saint, an orchestral lavish, pensive skittering experimental electronic piece. And if you missed Playwright earlier this year, you can stream the solo debut below, too. Drift away to its Eastern strings and picturesque haunting beauty. Trevor Powers’ solo album Mulberry Violence arrives August 17th on his own label, Baby Halo. Pre-order, here.

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Plaster Saint (2009) Victor Boullet Size: 21 x 30cm pp. 32 ISBN: 9780954401634 Ed. 1000 Layout & Cover Design: Hey Ho— Thomas Petitjean (spasskyfischer) Published by Frenetic Happiness,  2009

Buy here - Frenetic Happiness

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Trevor Powers - Plaster Saint.

fka Youth Lagoon

Shouts: Pitchfork

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plas·ter saint

noun

a person who makes a show of being without moral faults or human weakness, especially in a hypocritical way.

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Avalanche: Plaster Saint