Lord Huron’s fifth album (yes it is a proper album with 12 tracks despite the Vol 1 moniker) comes after a four year hiatus, a time during which their popularity has grown thanks largely to the popularity of song “The Night We Met”. Ben Schneider visits the West again with songs of skies and deserts, jangling guitars and distorted voices. Aside: pet gripe, distortion on vocals is really overdone these days!
It evokes the highway on “Who Laughs Last” with narration from actress Kirsten Stewart but also features simple love songs such as the tender “Fire Eternal” (a duet with Kazu Makino). This is a set of beautiful melodic songs. Apple Music says that “it never tries to sound too earnest or authentic in the mood it captures, instead embracing them for the cinematic archetypes they are”. Paste Magazine describes it as a “vision quest—a spiritual trek into a stark, open landscape under vast skies, where finding yourself means getting lost”.
New Zealand Net Radio plays a song from our irregularly updated #albumoftheweek every hour from 9am to 12pm. Listen in @tunein at http://tun.in/sfAtE or on the web player.