These new Youth Lagoon songs are so rich and imaginative you can’t make sense of them at the first listening even though you know you’re gonna madly love them. In 2010, the young Trevor Powers dropped ‘The Year of Hibernation’, and fans are now impatiently waiting for its follow up, ‘Wondrous Bughouse’, set to be released on March 5th via Fat Possum.
After listening to ‘Dropla’ a month ago, we can now stream the second track ‘Mute’, which just appeared on Soundcloud. This is some triumphant track if there is one, the 6-minute song will brighten your room like an explosion of burgeoning multicolor flowers on the first day of spring. 'Mute' is a grand-scale layered psychedelic-pop tune, populated by more rainbow-sounds than the rain forest on acid, making my mind wander somewhere between The Flaming Lips’ ‘Buggin’ and Panda Bear’s ‘Tomboy’, minus the fuzziness… not a bad place actually.
The epic track is actually complex, going from a totally triumphant jubilant opening, falling into metallic sounds glittering and fizzling all over the place, spiraling and then morphing into symphonic and keyboard weirdness.
Meanwhile, Youth Lagoon will soon start a massive US tour, and I just hope he will stop by Los Angeles between these two Coachella dates in April.
Youth Lagoon tour dates:
February 25 – Spokane, WA @ A Club
February 26 – Missoula, MT @ Badlander
February 27 – Bozeman, MT @ Filling Station
February 28 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Court
March 1 – Denver, CO @ Larimer Lounge
March 6 – New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
March 13-March 16 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
March 22 – Boise, ID @ Treefort Music Fest
April 12 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
April 19 – Indio, CA @ Coachella
April 21 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom
April 22 – Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
April 24 – Austin, TX @ Mohawk
April 25 – Dallas, TX @ The Loft
April 26 – Houston, TX @ Fitzgerald's
April 27 – New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jacks
April 28 – Birmingham, AL @ The Bottletree
April 30 – Orlando, FL @ The Social
May 1 – Atlanta, GA @ Terminal West
May 2 – Nashville, TN @ Mercy Lounge
May 3 – Asheville, NC @ The Grey Eagle
May 4 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat's Cradle
May 7 – Northampton, MA @ Pearl St.
May 10 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
May 11 – Columbia, MD @ Sweet Life Festival
May 13 – Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
May 14 – Columbus, OH @ A&R Bar
May 15 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
May 16 – Madison, WI @ Majestic Theater
May 17 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line
May 22 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
May 23 – Vancouver, BC @ Venue
May 24 – Gorge, WA Sasquatch! Fest
June 5 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center *
* = w/ The National