Youth lagoon – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk CREATE:COMMUNICATE:CONNECT Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:27:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/cropped-FAVICON-90x90-1-32x32.png Youth lagoon – and so she thinks https://andsoshethinks.co.uk 32 32 Radio – Thoughts & Rhythms Sept 9th https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/radio-thoughts-rhythms-sept-9th/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/radio-thoughts-rhythms-sept-9th/#respond Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:27:26 +0000 http://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=3065
  • Dearly Beloved – For Her
  • The Growlers – Humdrum Blues
  • Eagulls – Nerve Endings
  • Splashh – Something’s Here
  • Top Less – Danger Love
  • Youth Lagoon – Raspberry Cane
  • Yoofs – For Her
  • Spirits Flow – Then Comes Silence Too
  • Dead Young Friends – Inside Your Head
  • Dead Leaf Echo – Kingmaker
  • Love Inks – Solar Diary
  • Loon Lake – Carolina
  • Bell X1 – Starlings Over Brighton Pier
  • Rawshank – Jaguar

    • Thoughts & Rhythms – Sept 9th 2013 by Francesca Baker on Mixcloud

    ]]>     https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/radio-thoughts-rhythms-sept-9th/feed/ 0     Youth Lagoon – Raspberry Cane https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/youth-lagoon-raspberry-cane/ https://andsoshethinks.co.uk/youth-lagoon-raspberry-cane/#comments Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:16:57 +0000 https://andsoshethinks.wordpress.com/?p=2819 Music, like the mind, is a complex thing. Some people navigate life via talking, others counter their demons with drugs, and the talented ones use music. Trevor Powers, the man behind Youth Lagoon has been well documented in his use of music to sort his own thoughts and make sense of it all. Describing his musical output as ‘my mind communicating with me, not the other way round’ the sounds of Youth Lagoon span that space between physical, psychological and metaphysical, a complex and barely contained sonic sort of meditation. New single Raspberry Cane is bracketed by liquid languidness, dreamy vocals easing us into the compulsive piano rhythms that gently usher you into, but not necessarily through a track that is simultaneously woozy and fragile but underpinned by a sense of solidity, as though the mind is aware of what the body is what. Sometimes sweet, sometimes veering on scary, the whole thing is lush and lovely whilst also being, or perhaps due to, its air of ephemeral transience. Lyrical motifs of ash, blood and wine give the sense of ambition and aiming beyond the known, but despite the feeling that this is not an ‘A G D she loves me’ style song, reinforced by words such as ‘This dimension and the next…I’m polluted by my blood, so help me cut it out and rinse it down the drain’ it is ultimately a song about love, and where it can be found. Not happy music, and indeed there are moments when a knot sort of lodges itself in your throat, but it is the type of sound that brims with attractive complexities and draws you in through them. Around five minutes in, when torments and demons may all be getting too much the first ending (pre closing bracket) is one of whirling carousel, bringing you back from he brink of emotion as exploration to simple childlike naivety. Strange but beautiful.
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