lordhuron, the dark-Americana outfit, aspires to be something greater than a band. “You can enjoy the music on your own if you want to, but I also wanted there to be more to dig into,” singer/songwriter/guitarist Ben Schneider told the New York Times in 2014, a little over a year before Lord Huron released its album Strange Trails, which included the now-ubiquitous hit single “The Night We Met.”
For the uninitiated, Lord Huron is buried in sometimes inscrutable lore: The songs it plays are credited to fictional characters in the band’s imagined universe, fleshed out with music videos, films, websites and even a comic book, in the case of Strange Trails.
Lord Huron stans are a cult of their own, some writing lengthy Reddit treatises interpreting the albums. For those of us not immersed in Schneider’s alternate construct of reality, some rudimentary background on Strange Trails, which the band played in full at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on May 28, helped a bit. But perhaps a read-through ...
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