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9.0
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Northern Transmissions
This record will be on many of your ten list for the year, because of its rawness, because of its polish
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8.4
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Beats Per Minute
The glorious “Prizefighter” is a candidate for song of the year, integrating oblique lyrics that invoke ennui and a melody that defines transportive
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8.4
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Sputnik Music (staff)
Heaven Is A Junkyard is an accessible listen, both because the songs tend to be gently appealing in the most basic sonic sense and because it’s a short record easy to find time for
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8.3
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Pitchfork
Trevor Powers has long shown a penchant for reinvention, but his first album as Youth Lagoon in eight years feels like a homecoming; he’s never sounded so confident or at peace with himself
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8.0
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Exclaim
Heaven Is A Junkyard will make you feel its spiritual tone and tenor, a superpower that has laid dormant with Youth Lagoon, now awakened by Powers finally finding his voice
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8.0
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PopMatters
Youth Lagoon reaches a new level of accomplishment with Heaven Is a Junkyard. The downbeat topics underscore a fallen world but also one that can be redeemed
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8.0
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Spectrum Culture
If there was nothing left for Powers to say with Youth Lagoon, Heaven Is a Junkyard is a mighty fine slab of nothing
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6.0
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All Music
Even in its most orchestrated moments, the album feels primarily reflective and still, like Powers is gazing out on a silent field of wheat and offering us a look into his brain as the thoughts, memories, and scattered hopes all float by
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