Rarely Do I Dream
2025 studio album by Youth Lagoon
Rarely Do I Dream is the fifth studio album by American musician Trevor Powers under his Youth Lagoon project. It was released on February 21, 2025, by Fat Possum Records. Produced by Powers and Rodaidh McDonald, Rarely Do I Dream was written by Powers at his home in Idaho after finding a shoebox of old home movies and sampling them to use as "musical cinematography". Powers said, "I wanted to make an album that feels like life itself." Rarely Do I Dream incorporates elements of electronica, ambient music, and post-punk with lyrical themes exploring rural noir, death and rebirth, boyhood memoir, and old-world folklore.
Background and recording
Powers traces the album's origin to his return to Boise in late 2023, after touring in support of his album Heaven Is a Junkyard. Around this time, he went searching for his grandmother's pre-wartime harmonica in his parents' basement and discovered a shoebox containing home videos his family captured on a camcorder. Powers became captivated by the footage on these 8mm tapes, which he had never watched before, and began sampling them from the CRT TV he was watching them on and incorporating them into the music. Powers has emphasized that this inspiration was not rooted in a nostalgia for the past: "It was in these pieces of who I was that showed me where it is, then, that I need to go. They taught me all these things about my family history and the awakening of my spirit." On Rarely Do I Dream, Powers stitched together family archive, childhood memoir, and autobiography with stories of devils, detectives, and folktales. He described the process of honoring his family history while combining elements of rural noir and fantasy as a careful balancing act to function as "one cohesive truth".
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