Heaven is a junkyard

"Powers has reached a new level of accomplishment with Heaven Is a Junkyard. The downbeat topics he addresses underscore not only a fallen world in a religious sense but, as such, a world that can also be redeemed".

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"Best New Music" - "... his cryptic existential musings, which he delivers in a voice as high and craggy as the Idaho backcountry near his hometown, Boise. His first album under the Youth Lagoon alias in eight years, Heaven Is a Junkyard, channels those familiar qualities into a reinvention that feels like a homecoming. The old anxiety and morbid fascination remain, but Powers has never sounded so confident, so at peace within himself".

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"Youth Lagoon er musikalsk poesi beslægtet med tidlig Nick Cave, men på en anden nagende måde tæt knyttet til rå, autentiske liv i geografiske og emotionelle randområder ... Mere åbenlyst hudløs end nogensinde med en stribe gribende kamæleonagtige skæbnefortællinger om cowboybøllebank, forslåede voksenbørn og sjælens saltomortaler".

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