Length 36:47 Release date 25 September 2015 Genres Dream pop, Art Pop | Artist Youth Lagoon | |
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Released September 25, 2015 (2015-09-25) Producer Trevor Powers, Ali Chant Similar Wondrous Bughouse, The Year of Hibernation, Fading Frontier, Have You In My Wilderness, Teens of Style | ||
Youth lagoon officer telephone
Savage Hills Ballroom is the third and final studio album by Boise, Idaho-based musician Trevor Powers' Youth Lagoon project. The album was recorded in Bristol, England, and released on September 25, 2015 by Fat Possum Records.
Contents
Background
Powers alluded to the fact that the album addressed breaking down barriers and acknowledging personal flaws. He stated in an interview that the album was not named for an actual ballroom: “It’s a mystical place. I think of things in mental images, and while I was working on the album, I pictured this [ballroom]…a place that’s ominous but still inviting. And I needed an appropriate name for that, and ‘Savage Hills Ballroom’ fit," he said.
Release
On July 13, 2015, "The Knower" became the first track to be distributed prior to the album's release; it was issued as a free single-sided 7" single. "Highway Patrol Stun Gun" was subsequently released on August 10 as a music video.
Critical reception
Savage Hills Ballroom received mostly positive reviews from contemporary music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 74, based on 10 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Ian Cohen of Pitchfork Media gave the album a positive review, stating, "Regardless of the subject matter or the production or the arrangements, the most truly self-searching Youth Lagoon album has Powers realizing he perhaps knew his position of strength all along—the inner child set adrift in the adult world, left to figure it out on his own."
Track listing
All tracks written by Trevor Powers.
Songs
1Officer Telephone3:02
2Highway Patrol Stun Gun4:10
3The Knower3:26