Lord Huron formed in 2010 in Los Angeles, after founding member Ben Schneider moved from Michigan to France then to New York and on to LA. The name pays tribute to Lake Huron, a family vacation spot for Schneider. Initially a solo project, Schneider recorded many of the first songs during a trip back to Michigan.
Releasing his early work on EP, Schneider assembled a band to support the music and began touring. Appearances at festivals built the band’s reputation.
The bands’ first full album arrived in 2012, during a wave of interest in indie folk releases and this led to the breakout 2015 album Strange Trails.
After Lord Huron’s Strange Trails album made the top 25 in the US and Canada, the band began work on a followup released in 2018. Vide Noir climbed to #10 in the US.
With a decade of recording experience at their own Whispering Pines Studio. Ben Schneider says that it became the concept for last year’s fourth album Long Lost. “It’s a very haunted feel, it’s very stuck in a time warp. The decor is all the original stuff from the ’70s, and we had to replace a lot of the electronics and equipment, but it has this very haunted, trapped-in-time feel. So, we’ve invented characters that we imagine haunting it, or people who have passed through in the past, and writing from their perspective became the concept of the album.”
