Youth Lagoon Hangs Out With a Masked Man in "Highway Patrol Stun Gun" Video

Youth Lagoon, aka Trevor Powers, has shared a video for “Highway Patrol Stun Gun”, another cut off his forthcoming album Savage Hills Ballroom. Directed by Kendy Ty, the video sees Powers wandering around New York City with a fellow sporting a golden mask. Over the course of the clip, they lunch in the park, play golf, and interact with passerby on the street, among other antics. Watch it below via The Fader.

Here’s what Powers told The Fader about the song and video:

With all the police brutality in the media, it seemed like every single day there was some element of chaos—but in different forms. It just got so bad. I feel like we live in this shitstorm now where there’s so many corrupt people in high places, people getting away with all this shit. So, I sat down and I decided to just write whatever came to my mind. Living in Idaho, it’s easy to feel isolated from all of these events, and that was sort of my way of dealing with it. There’s also elements of loss tied to [the song] as well. I lost one of my closest friends a couple years back, and that bled into everything. It was all these ideas put into a blender.

For me [the concept of the video] was this idea of having this extension of yourself. We go down these life paths and we feel like we’re always alone, but we have those different aspects of our personality that are essentially grounding us; we’re not quite alone, because we have our spirit. It was that idea, combined with the idea of losing someone and having them still be alive throughout your day to day—because I think that’s a very real thing. Anyone who’s experienced any sort of loss, you know you go out on a windy day you feel the wind on your skin and you feel like they’re still there.

Savage Hills Ballroom is out September 25 via Fat Possum.

Check out Youth Lagoon’s set from Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2013:

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