★★★★★
Ostensibly the nom de plume of Michigan-born Ben Schneider, Lord Huron is also, like Blondie, a group: and a pretty darn fantastic group to boot. Following a brace of EPs, Lord Huron have tapped into the mythical psyche of an imaginary Western plainsman and crossed that with gamelan rhythms and chord sequences that seem to have been field-recorded in the Arabian Desert night...
- recordcollectormag.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
American roots band Lord Huron emerge with their first album. A concoction of chilled melodies, relaxing sounds but with an addictive tang which makes an invigorating listen. Following their impressive Might EP the rising LA roots band Lord Huron release their first full length album on IAMSOUND Records. The musical and visual project created by lead singer Ben Schneider brings lush acoustic guitars and Midwestern-accented harmonies to the table...
- www.music-news.com
2013-01-27
★★★★★
A folk-rock Thoreau, Michigan's Ben Schneider has a near mystical vision of America's wilderness, a place of peaks and prairies, "sacred dunes" and rivers that "wind on for ever". The production of his debut is appropriately epic, its echoing acoustic guitars and yearning, Fleet Foxy vocals mixed with cowboy cattle calls and Pawnee chants...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-01-12
★★★★★
Michigan's Ben Schneider, the driving force behind Lord Huron, is a man with a grand, multi-media vision and a penchant for the wide open spaces of the mythic American West. This debut long-player arrives with additional short films and 'imagined novels' by mysterious fictional wordsmith George Ranger Johnson, designed, according to Schneider, to create "a world with its own mythology". For all that, Lord Huron is, at heart, a rootsy, all-American affair, albeit with added sonic dimensions...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare The Air Up There Lonesome Dreams, the first LP-length record by Lord Huron, a project lead by singer-songwriter Ben Schneider, is intriguing in the midst of its lack of intrigue. Meaning, though the songs are reasonably well crafted and performed, it doesn't make so much a splash as it does a series of pleasant, if unspectacular ripples into the eardrums...
- www.mxdwn.com
2012-12-23
★★★★★
In Larry McMurtry's quintessential epic frontier novel Lonesome Dove, a pair of adventure-thirsty ex-Rangers lead a danger-ridden cattle drive from small-town Texas to Montana, heading north until they could declare themselves pioneers, with no neighbors for hundreds of miles. After the diminished and disheartened crew finally succeeds, the leader feels nothing but a duty to return all the way home, a journey that he embarks on alone...
- www.jambands.com
2012-11-28
★★★★★
Ben Schneider of Lord Huron whispers, "There is a river that winds on forever, I'm gonna see where it leads," the first lyrics on his debut LP Lonesome Dreams. It is a pretty and precious aside, a passing bit of commentary recast as a genre thesis statement. The album is a record of wanderlust in form and function. This search, like the record in question, channels both the aspiration and insouciance of chasing the infinite...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-05
★★★★★
A plethora of slow-expanding gongs, brash cymbal shimmers and other such dramatic drippings depend like sheeny webs from the sharp and assured songwriting on Lord Huron's Lonesome Dreams; singer-songwriter Ben Schneider has obviously been at this quite a while, building musical muscle and polishing his sound with gusto...
- filtermagazine.com
2012-10-11
★★★★★
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- www.kcrw.com
2012-10-04
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