Singer/songwriter Trevor Powers resurrected his Youth Lagoon moniker a few years ago with 2021's Heaven is a Junkyard, which was his first YL album in about eight years. Now, he's ready to follow that up with another.

Rarely Do I Dream, the fifth Youth Lagoon album, will be out February 21 via Fat Cat. The new record includes all three of his recent, previously-shared standalone singles: "My Beautiful Girl", "Football", and "Lucy Takes a Picture".

The lead single, "Speed Freak", comes accompanied by a video directed by longtime collabator Tyler T. Williams. Watch and listen below:

Much of the thrust behind the new album came from Powers rediscovering a bunch of home videos from his parents' basement. He says in a press release:

"When I took the tapes home and popped in the first one, it was my brother Bobby and I at the state fair. I was 4 years old choking on a corn dog. If anything’s a summary of life, that is. What I was really consumed with was how much I could zoom in on my actual history. I wanted to really make someone feel like they were inside my living room in 1993, but rearrange the furniture a bit. Something about combining that level of hyperreality with fairytales of devils and detectives weirdly felt like the truest way to immortalize these pieces of my family."

According to the backstory of the record:

"Powers spent the following week recording his favorite moments off the TV — Easter egg hunts, backyard baseball, bloody noses, birthday parties, road trips, and all the life in-between. The vivid intimacies of life and boyhood depicted in Powers’ home movies began shaping and infusing with his songs. He started sampling the audio and manipulating it into a kind of musical cinematography, fusing past with future."

The album, co-produced with mixer/engineer Rodaidh McDonald, represents a continuation of the "rural noir" style of songwriting that Powers reentered the fray with on Heaven. "I had ended Youth Lagoon years ago because I lost who I was,” he says. “Then life jumped me in an alley and gave me a beating. That suffering changed my frequency. Now my ideas are a river. I can’t keep up."

You can preorder the album here.

Rarely Do I Dream full tracklist:

1. Neighborhood Scene
2. Speed Freak
3. Football
4. Gumshoe (Dracula From Arkansas)
5. Seersucker
6. Lucy Takes A Picture
7. Perfect World
8. My Beautiful Girl
9. Canary
10. Parking Lot
11. Saturday Cowboy Matinee
12. Home Movies (1989-1993)

Additionally, Powers will be heading out on the road with an extensive North American tour. Find all the dates below:

03/27 Spokane, WA @ District Bar @ Knitting Factory
03/28 Missoula, MT @ ZACC
03/29 Boise, ID @ Treefort Fest
04/03 Portland, OR @ Aladdin Theater
04/04 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
04/05 Victoria, BC @ Upstairs
04/06 Seattle, WA @ Crocodile
04/08 San Francisco, CA @ August Hall
04/09 Los Angeles, CA @ The Regent
04/10 San Diego, CA @ Casbah
04/11 Tucson, AZ @ Club Congress
04/14 San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
04/15 Austin, TX @ Mohawk
04/16 Dallas, TX @ Deep Ellum Art Co
04/18 Nashville, TN @ Exit/In
04/19 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade (Altar)
04/20 Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
04/21 Washington, DC @ The Atlantis
04/22 Philadelphia, PA @ The Foundry
04/24 Brooklyn, NY @ Warsaw
04/25 Jersey City, NJ @ White Eagle Hall
04/26 New Haven, CT @ Space Ballroom
04/27 Boston, MA @ Middle East Downstairs
04/29 Montreal, QC @ La Sala Rossa
05/01 Toronto, ON @ Axis
05/02 Detroit, MI @ El Club
05/03 Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
05/04 Louisville, KY @ Whirling Tiger
05/05 Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
05/07 Chicago, IL @ Outset
05/08 Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium
05/09 Madison, WI @ High Noon Saloon
05/10 St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club
05/12 St. Louis, MO @ Atomic Cowboy
05/13 Lawrence, KS @ The Bottleneck
05/15 Denver, CO @ Marquis
05/16 Salt Lake City, UT @ Kilby Block Party