Youth Lagoon, the moniker of Idaho-based producer and composer Trevor Powers, is back with a new single. It’s called ‘My Beautiful Girl’, and it follows May’s ‘Lucy Takes a Picture’. Check it out via the accompanying video, directed by Regrets Only, below.
“Songwriting just feels like receiving messages from a portal and transcribing them,” Powers shared in a press release. “Some nights I’ll wake up at 3 am and words feel like they’re bludgeoning my skull with a baseball bat. Most times, I don’t even know what they mean. I don’t think I’m supposed to. It’s only my job to listen, be constant, and write them down. And if I’m not a faithful steward of that job, those words will find someone else who is.”
He added: “There’s a near-ghost town in western Idaho called Idaho City — about 30 minutes from home. I go there often to swim in the river, pray, and be alone in the country. Last time I went, I hiked through the cemetery (known as ‘Boothill’ ‘cuz of all the miners that died with their boots on) and saw a gravestone in darkness and dry weeds that said only, ‘My Beautiful Girl’. No name. No dates. Just love. Who was this beautiful girl? The portal opened, and I wrote down the message.”
Youth Lagoon’s most recent LP, Heaven Is a Junkyard, came out last year. Read our inspirations interview with Powers about the album.