![]() ![]() “Generally, the genesis of a song is autobiographical or very nearly autobiographical, someone close to me go through something particular. Always curious to know at what point the avatar takes over, seven years later, I got my answer: “I guess the balance is about the same, and like you said, it’s a combination of truth and fiction, really,” Schneider muses.īy creating a fiction around a truthful emotion, you can kind of make it easier to digest and get out more of the truth of it, in a strange way. Through each album, their stories and odysseys filling my headphones, the boundary between fiction and reality blurred remarkably. I discovered Lord Huron when I was about 15 ‘Ends of the Earth’ played during the credits of an offensively crap teen romance film (whose soundtrack alone means I have seen it too often to justify), and thus began my longing to follow wherever those avatars roamed. I always like to start with something that’s personal, but then look at it a different way – through the eyes of a different type of person.” “Then I started writing songs from their perspectives: I find it really useful to create avatars to write songs through, sometimes just as a way to change up my perspective. So, we started imagining who’d gone through there and created these characters of old showbiz folks who’d come in and out of, and what they’d done there. “We found a little information, but there’s not much. “We’ve always wondered about who had worked there before us,” he continues. “It’s this great old studio built in the early ’70s we took it over after it had been abandoned for about 25 years, so it’s filled with all this old outdated gear that we had to strip out and rebuild. “We’ve been working there for the past seven years, did our last three records there – it’s kind of like our clubhouse. “I guess the genesis for this record was it started in our studio, Whispering Pines,” Ben explains. ![]() As for Long Lost, the fourth of Lord Huron’s LPs, ghosts return in a setting closer to home than usual. Through Zoom, I can practically see the storyboards in his mind drafting the experience of a mother to be – admittedly something of a tangent from the dead men and cosmonauts we’ve been introduced to on their previous records. “Waiting to put a record out is like… I don’t know what it’s like being pregnant, but I feel like it’s like that: where you just can’t wait to get it out in the world and let people meet your creation.” Upon e-meeting the band’s frontman, Ben Schneider, it’s clear that metaphors and alternative perspectives are embedded in his way of thinking. With a fourth album on the way, Lord Huron’s extensive universe of characters and landscapes is due to continue, meaning I need never bother downloading Audible for a free trial. I’ve never taken to audiobooks, but I’m a sucker for musical narrative.
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