Album Review: Youth Lagoon - Savage Hills Ballroom

Idaho-native Trevor Powers has penned an incredibly textured album full of nighttime philosophising.

Power's struggle with anxiety has been well documented since spending the money he'd saved for emotional counselling on his tellingly-titled debut album, The Year Of Hibernation. Three albums in, Savage Hills Ballroom is inspired by the illusion of the warm and promising households Powers glimpsed inside on his nocturnal running routine. "They stay indoors until they break a light," he sings on Rotten Human, aiming both to shatter normative fantasies and illuminate his own insecurities. It's a deeply humanising approach, encompassing all the touching highlights and emotional baggage that entails.