22-year old Trevor Powers, as known as Youth Lagoon, did play a few of his uplifting songs at Origami Vinyl before his show at the Echo next door on Wednesday night, and it was really difficult to resist to his pretty keyboard-driven hymn-like songs with massive chorus.
He was playing his organ-keyboard in the Origami loft, just accompanied by someone on guitar and seemed a little anxious, talking to the crowd and apologizing to be so… above us. His bedroom-pop songs had this ghostly beauty, sounding luminous and delicate, completely non-aggressive, only focusing on the keyboard and the distant-dreamy vocals.
He said he would be playing some stripped down versions of his songs, and with a tinkling organ, some high-pitch child-like vocals, ‘Cannons’, ‘Afternoon’, or ‘July’ started quietly before the soaring-drenched-in-the-sound vocals and a higher-than-the-sky-melody exploding out there. All this was quite pretty and there may have been a little bit of Panda Bear in all this, not in the obsessive repetition of Noah Benjamin Lennox’s compositions, but in the eeriness of the project.
The Boise-based Powers has already released a complete album ‘The Year of Hibernation’ last September, and has declared in interviews that he had written these songs because of the extreme anxiety that has literally been eating him up inside during his whole life. Poor guy, but there was sure a lot of dramatic and intense feelings over these ascending keys! Youth Lagoon is on tour and still has a few dates in California and Arizona that should not been missed.
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