Best New Music
Boisean Trevor Powers’ project, Youth Lagoon, is currently being featured on the front page of Pitchfork in their “Best New Music” section. Refreshingly, the accompanying article focuses on the merits of Powers’ music, and not where he resides. Time and time again, national blogs featuring Idahoan musicians have spent the first several paragraphs of their features painting an antiquated picture of Idaho as one giant potato field, with Doug Martsch playing at a hoedown in the middle of it. It’s nice to see that the music of Youth Lagoon made it possible for a non-resident music journalist to focus on the music at hand, and not preconceived notions of our state.
Congratulations, Trevor!
