Strange Trails by Lord Huron

Strange Trails, Lord Huron's second album, came out in the UK on PIAS Recordings on April 7, 2015, with Iamsound putting it out in the US the following day. The Los Angeles band, founded by singer and guitarist Ben Schneider, builds its songs out of country and western, folk rock, surf guitar, rock and roll and a heavy dose of film-score atmosphere, and here it all hangs together like a mysterious road movie.

Reverb-soaked guitars twang in the dark, harmonies drift in from the canyon, and Schneider sings like a lonesome drifter telling ghost stories around a campfire. "Fool for Love" rattles along with a wild-West gallop, "Meet Me in the Woods" creeps in slow and spooky, and the aching, dreamy "The Night We Met" has had the longest life on the countdowns. Critics liked it, and it charted in the US, the UK, Canada and Belgium. Vide Noir came next.

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