Youth Lagoon – Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)

Trevor Powers’ latest offering as Youth Lagoon, Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas), is a swirling blend of memory, folklore, and raw emotion. Taken from Rarely Do I Dream (out this Friday via Fat Possum Records).

Powers play with a structure like a deck of shuffled cards—snippets of home recordings, a steady drum groove, and bursts of conversation fold into the music, creating a dreamlike sense of time slipping between past and present. “The summer taught me that life’s a baseball bat to the jaw,” he sings, embodying the bittersweet ache of growing up and looking back. It’s an ode to lost innocence, the ghosts of old family gatherings, and the strange, unshakeable pull of home.