And I’ve chosen it as the subject of this month’s “nostalgia review”, even though to my ears this thing is still very new.Įxplaining the concept behind Lord Huron is likely to be met with a hefty dose of “Wait, so let me get this straight…” type responses. Their debut album, Lonesome Dreams, pretty much instantly rocketed its way into the upper tiers of my best-of-the-decade list when I made a point of listening to it in full. Really all it took was a single song on a personally curated playlist (and later another for good measure) and I was pretty much instantly hooked. Turns out I had heard them before, but never heard of them. Very late in 2019, in the middle of a gargantuan attempt to catch up with as much great music as possible that I had missed out on earlier in the decade, my wife managed to blindside me with the discovery of a band that I had honestly never heard of before. The band has evolved a bit in the years since, but nothing they’ve done since then has hit me nearly as hard. Lord Huron’s unique habit of weaving together pieces of a story in anachronic order, told from the perspective of a not-so-reliable narrator, as well as their occasional use of electronic and worldbeat elements, helps to set their songwriting style apart from influences like Fleet Foxes and My Morning Jacket that they quite obviously wore on their sleeves at this point. Meet Me in the Woods (feat.In Brief: An astounding debut that immediately transports me back to the days when the indie folk revival was still going strong. Into the SunĬover art for Into the Sun Label: Whispering Pines Studios Catalog Number: Unknown Format: CD, EP Country: US Genre: Folk, Indie Tracklist 1Ĭover art for Mighty Label: Whispering Pines Studios, Linian Music Catalog Number: Unknown Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP Country: US Genre: Folk, Indie TracklistĬover art for Lonesome Dreams Label: Whispering Pines Studios Catalog Number: Unknown Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album Country: US Genre: Rock, Folk, Indie TracklistĬover art for Strange Trails Label: Whispering Pines Studios, Iamsound Records Catalog Number: Unknown Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM, Album Country: US Genre: Indie, Rockabilly, Country Tracklist Music For futher information, see album entries. In Alive From Whispering Pines season 35, Lord Huron are recording in Tubbs Tarbell's Whispering Pines Studios as themselves. In the music video for " The World Ender," Lord Huron are on screen on the television in the Frozen Pines Motel, possibly as the Buck Vernon Band or the Phantom Riders. Lord Huron appear in the " Fool for Love" music video, credited as the Buck Vernon Band. 1 Description and appearances in universe.Their albums have broad and sometimes intertwined story arcs, which are "intended to be fragmentary, non-chronological and in some ways confounding." Lonesome Dreams and Strange Trails "exist within the same world, but they are separated by time, location and different characters." On Strange Trails, Vide Noir, and Long Lost there are some characters who are present for more than one album. Beyond music, there’s art to look at, there’s videos to watch, there’s other ways to engage and live inside universe if you can." But there are all these other elements that you can kind of dig deeper and get into if you’re so inclined. Schneider has said in an interview: "if you want to enjoy the music, that’s cool. Schneider has a visual arts background and the body of media Lord Huron produces ranges from music and visual art, to video and film, comic book concepts and fictional novels, as well as alternate reality game elements. It was originally a solo project by Schneider, who created two EPs in 2010 before forming the band.
The band consists of Ben Schneider (lead vocals, guitar), Mark Barry (percussion, vocals), Miguel Briseño (bass, keyboard, theremin, percussion), and Tom Renaud (guitar, vocals). Lord Huron is an American band who frequently cover the songs of characters in their fictional universe, such as Frankie Lou, Leigh Green, Buck Vernon, and The Phantom Riders.
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