Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation [24 bit FLAC] vinyl

Youth Lagoon - The Year of Hibernation (2011) [24 bit FLAC] vinyl
(with bonus 7")

Released: 2011
Genre: Pop/Rock
Style: Indie Rock, Dream Pop
Codec: FLAC
Bit Rate: ~ 2,600 kbps
Bits Per Sample: 24
Sample Rate: 96,000 Hz

01. Posters
02. Cannons
03. Afternoon
04. 17
05. July
06. Daydream
07. Montana
08. The Hunt
09. Bobby
10. Ghost To Me

Trevor Powers' debut as Youth Lagoon, The Year of Hibernation, provides the missing link between bedroom-pop contemporaries like Small Black and Perfume Genius and the bittersweet psychedelia of Mercury Rev and the Flaming Lips. Barely into his twenties when he recorded these songs, Powers' fragile vocals -- which sound uncannily like those of Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous -- nevertheless remain strong whether heΓÇÖs surrounded by gentle swells of synth, as on the album-opening ΓÇ£Posters,ΓÇ¥ or mountains of sound, as on the lovely single ΓÇ£Cannons.ΓÇ¥ What makes The Year of Hibernation notable, however, is the vulnerability and empathy that radiate from every song. Recorded in the wake of a breakup and shaped by Powers' lifelong chronic anxiety, the album speaks to resilience in the face of hard emotions and situations, whether itΓÇÖs with tentative hope as on ΓÇ£Afternoon,ΓÇ¥ or inevitable goodbyes as on ΓÇ£Montana.ΓÇ¥ Yet these songs arenΓÇÖt depressing; the warmth and reassurance in ΓÇ£17ΓÇ¥ΓÇÖs keyboards and Powers' murmurs on ΓÇ£JulyΓÇ¥ shine through like a winter sunbeam. A quietly remarkable debut, The Year of Hibernation is equally suited to hiding underneath the covers and throwing them off to face the day.