“A casual listener could be forgiven for missing Youth Lagoon's dark streak. Trevor Powers presents with a fragile voice, wide-eyed promo shots, fantastical album titles, and right, the name "Youth Lagoon". But there's a bleak perspective below the surface: "July" was an emotionally austere breakup letter, "Attic Doctor" a grotesque nightmare of medical atrocities, "Dropla" a plea for a dying famil”
