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- Summary: This is the first new release from Trevor Powers' music project Youth Lagoon since 2015's Savage Hills Ballroom.
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- Record Label: Fat Possum Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Dream Pop, Noise Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
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Positive: 7 out of 8
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Mixed: 1 out of 8
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Negative: 0 out of 8
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UncutJul 17, 2023Delivers intimately detailed tales set to hushed arrangements. [Sep 2023, p.37]
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Jun 12, 2023Heaven Is A Junkyard might be a comparatively trim release, but it contains multitudes.
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Jun 16, 2023The 10-song, 34-minute project crescendos, Powers perfecting his multifaceted craft while forging one of 2023’s more hypnotic sequences.
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Jun 12, 2023Heaven Is A Junkyard marks the most powerful and personal album from Powers yet.
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Jun 15, 2023With ten tracks and roughly 35 minutes, Heaven Is a Junkyard is beautifully executed from a musical standpoint, with Powers’ piano and synthesizer often providing a bright and cheerful counterpoint to the dark lyrics at hand.
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Jun 12, 2023Heaven Is A Junkyard will make you feel its spiritual tone and tenor, a superpower that has laid dormant with Youth Lagoon, now awakened by Powers finally finding his voice."
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Jun 12, 2023By and large, Heaven Is a Junkyard finds Powers in pastoral mode. Even in its most orchestrated moments, the album feels primarily reflective and still, like Powers is gazing out on a silent field of wheat and offering us a look into his brain as the thoughts, memories, and scattered hopes all float by.
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Positive: 2 out of 2
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Mixed: 0 out of 2
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Negative: 0 out of 2
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