{"podcast":{"title":"LSQ","slug":"lsq-810133","podcast_index_feed_id":810133,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/3c43d49c/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://jennylsq.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/10010783/10010783-1623616874123-fcd4854fa04c1.jpg","author":"Jenny Eliscu","episode_count":142,"summary":"Interviews focus on key moments of discovery, and the songs/artists that have soundtracked the guest's life. Hosted by journalist and radio presenter Jenny Eliscu (@jennylsq), these are laid-back but in-depth discussions about the journey to find their creative voice and process, and how it has evolved over their career. Episodes also occasionally feature clips from Eliscu's extensive archive, which includes 25 years' worth of interview audio.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-01T16:19:46.243586+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lsq-810133"},"episode":{"title":"Youth Lagoon - Trevor Powers","slug":"youth-lagoon-trevor-powers","published_at":"2025-05-07T05:35:58+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lsq-810133/youth-lagoon-trevor-powers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lsq-810133","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/jennylsq/episodes/Youth-Lagoon---Trevor-Powers-e32ge63","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/APO4707827463.mp3","summary":"“There was always a way that music could speak to me,” says Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers . “I was really shy as a kid and I had a lot on my mind that I didn’t know how to get out. And music felt like one of those cheat codes where I felt like what I could say through one song was a lifetime worth of what was in my brain that I couldn’t say any other way.” I was instantly captivated by Youth Lagoon’s music when I first heard it more than a decade ago: Trevor Powers’ plaintive, childlike voice, the dreaminess and heady sonic textures of his music, the candor in his storytelling. In the years since the Boise, Idaho artist’s 2011 debut album, he has continually deepened his ability to make music that soothes and haunts at the same time. His latest album, Rarely Do I Dream , is his best yet, and one of my favorite LPs of 2025 so far. In the conversation in episode 121, Trevor talks about how discovering a trove of old home movies helped inspire the new album, and remind him of the importance of finding the true feeling at the center of a memory. He also discusses growing up hearing artists like Elvis and The Beach Boys and John Denver while being homeschooled, before finally being exposed to bands like Korn and the Offspring and Blink-182 when he eventually attended high school, and later discovering artists like My Bloody Valentine and Oingo Boingo thanks to his uncle introducing him to more cutting edge music. “There’s always something that’s coming in that’s changing not only my thought process, but there’s something internally that’s awakening my spirit in these new ways and pushing me in all these different directions,” he says. “There could be an endless amount of lifetimes and I can’t get it all out, what’s up here.” Trevor also shares why he decided to "kill of…","meta_description":"“There was always a way that music could speak to me,” says Youth Lagoon’s Trevor Powers . “I was really shy as a kid and I had a lot on my mind that I di…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2635,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lsq-810133/episodes/youth-lagoon-trevor-powers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lsq-810133/youth-lagoon-trevor-powers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}