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the energy and raw emotion can be felt from the first note

bound to brighten up the most drab stretch of bummer back-road

the band broke up

Youth Lagoon "Rarely Do I Dream" COLOR:BLACK Chicago-based melodic pop-punk outfit TheRooted in love and childhood memoir, Rarely Do I Dream is a triumph of American gothic imagination where storybook innocence dissolves into a radioactive billow of teenage drifters, drug addled hustlers, and old world folklore. Drifting between propulsive electronica and hallucinatory rock songs, Powers singular voice always glows front and center as the neon road sign pointing home.