Mmm. Yes. Just what I needed: a nice new singer-songwriter to...sink my teeth into? Wrong words, right idea.
Trevor Powers aka Youth Lagoon, is a 22 year old American whose music 'set the blogosphere into a state of watery-eyed rapture' earlier this year. His debut album 'The Year of Hibernation' is well worth taking some time over (you can listen to snippets of the whole thing here), as although his sound feels like a combination of artists heard before, I'm finding it hard to pin point exactly who. To throw the word 'unique' out there would be rash, but it's tempting. Check him out:
*