Delicate yet aggressive, innovative yet classic, Rarely Do I Dream is Youth Lagoons most comprehensive and audacious album to date. A treasure trove of home movies, twangy fuzz guitars, sun-bleached synths, classical pianos, blown-out drums, and Powers spellbinding melodies all feel like an old photograph thats been reanimated in a strange and distant future. This was the first time Ive ever used guitar instead of piano as my main writing tool, says Powers. Anytime Im horrified and on a knife-edge creatively I know Im doing something right. I need that feeling of knowing I could either be making the greatest thing Ive ever made or something so bad it could be career suicide. Anything short of that, Ive failed myself. After the Heaven Is a Junkyard tour, I was fully in the moment and appreciated all of it then I said to myself, Ok, moving on. I have zero interest in repeating myself.

Powers ability to relentlessly push and evolve the project forward has taken Youth Lagoon into a territory both fiercely original and strikingly expansive. Recorded with co-producer and mixer/engineer Rodaidh McDonald, Rarely Do I Dream marks a seismic transformation, a mammoth leap forward, and an instant, indelible landmark in Youth Lagoons revered discography. With a profound love and dedication to family, along with his own brand of genre-bending noir rock, Powers has achieved what he set out to do.

I wanted to make an album that feels like life itself says Powers.