Lord Huron

Lord Huron is an American indie folk band based in Los Angeles. The group's debut album, Lonesome Dreams, was released in 2012 on Iamsound in the U.S. and Play It Again Sam in UK & IE in January 2013.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Following the release of the album the group appeared on The Tonight Show.^[6] The band’s name was inspired by Lake Huron, the lake which band founder Ben Schneider grew up visiting, and would spend evenings playing music around the campfire. ^[7]

Formation

Founding member Ben Schneider began writing music in his hometown of Okemos, Michigan. Schneider went on to study visual art at the University of Michigan and finished his degree in France, before moving to New York where he worked for an artist.^[8] In 2005, Schneider moved to Los Angeles. In 2010, Schneider formed Lord Huron as a solo project, recording his first few EPs entirely on his own and steadily adding members to help play in live shows, most of whom he had known since childhood.^[9]

Members

Current

• Ben Schneider - guitar, vocals
• Mark Barry - percussion, vocals
• Miguel Briseño - bass, keys, percussion
• Tom Renaud - guitar, vocals

Former

• Peter Mowry - guitar
• Brett Farkas - guitar, vocals
• Karl Kerfoot - guitar, vocals

Lonesome Dreams

With the release of their first full-length album, Lonesome Dreams, the band also slowly released a series of music videos, all filmed in a western '70s style, which Schneider says was the focal point and narrative for the album.“We had this fun idea that Lonesome Dreams was kind of this series of old adventure tales. It's sort of a collection of pulp fiction and we wanted the videos to kind of reflect that and have that same feel and style,” Schneider said in an interview. They also decided to releas a theatrical version of the videos. ^[10]

Strange Trails

The band released their sophomore album, Strange Trails, on April 6th, 2015, in the United Kingdom and April 7th, 2015, in the United States. Track list, based on iTunes:

01. Love Like Ghosts (3:44)
02. Until The Night Turns (3:47)
03. Dead Man's Hand (4:21)
04. Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme) (2:46)
05. La Belle Fleur Sauvage (5:41)
06. Fool For Love (4:34)
07. The World Ender (4:30)
08. Meet Me In The Woods (4:22)
09. The Yawning Grave (3:12)
10. Frozen Pines (3:57)
11. Cursed (3:58)
12. Way Out There (4:10)
13. Louisa (3:09)
14. The Night We Met (3:28)

Discography

• Into the Sun EP (Self-released, 2010)
• Mighty EP (Linian Music, 2010)
• Time to Run EP (Iamsound, 2012)
• Lonesome Dreams (Iamsound, 2012)
• Strange Trails (Iamsound, 2015)

References