Trevor Powers Finally Returns From His Hiatus With "Playwright"

Two years back, Trevor Powers shocked the music world any time while he determined to retire his solo project Youth Lagoon soon after releasing the third and final album Savage Hills Ballroom. Throughout the indefinite hiatus, he retreated from social media and headed across the globe to Japan. Today, he finally returns to the grid with a brand-new single titled "Playwright." While there really are no specifics involving a forthcoming album, Trevor's latest issuing to us is just enough to leave listeners satisfied right after enduring such a long period of static silence.


Once again, he's created an introspective soundbite most fun as soon as streamed in solitude. As explained with a handwritten note, the track is about breaking free from the multitude of opposing paradoxes within ourselves and the human need to constantly be in a state of control. "I've been learning that love cannot exist without nightmares," he states. "Peace cannot exist without pain."


The accompanying visual directed by Dan Opsal is an extension of this powerful train of thought as demonstrated by the Aqualillies, a team of professional synchronized swimmers that blow all other forms of choreography out of the water.


Trevor further addressed the reasoning beyond departing from his former moniker, describing Youth Lagoon as a "mental dungeon" that contained him captive. "It's been mentioned the worst prisons are the ones we build for ourselves/the barriers, rules, and regulations that we pick to live by out of fear of the unknown or because we think it's what we're supposed to do," he writes. Yet I right now feel freed. This project is the starting of something new; not the continuation of something old."


Dive into the perfect mind Trevor Powers by way of the video below.