Youth Lagoon - the prized moniker of Idaho-based songwriter Trevor Powers - returns with a new single, “Lucy Takes a Picture.” “Once in a while there’s a song that feels like I’ve been trying to write it my whole life,” says Powers. “Lucy is one of those.” In 2023, Powers released the acclaimed Heaven Is a Junkyard, an album of warped Americana that brought his focus back home. “I realized everything worth writing about is happening inside my house or right next door,” he says. “There’s an eternity of secrets in the American suburbs.” With Pitchfork awarding it “Best New Music” and The Guardian dubbing it a “masterpiece,” Youth Lagoon’s first album in 8 years pushed the project into a neo-western realm both deeply literary and musically vast, centered around an upright piano and static-coated electronics. “I killed off Youth Lagoon years ago because I lost who I was,” says Powers. “Then life jumped me in an alley and gave me a beating. That suffering changed my frequency. Now my ideas are a river. I can’t keep up. ”When asked how his soul has changed, Powers looked out the window for a while before responding. “I still have demons. I’m just friends with them now.”