Lord Huron
Strange Trails
America Canada Limited copies come with a PIAS sampler CD featuring 12 tracks from Champs Lord Huron Mew Other Lives Ghostpoet etc and a 'Strange Trails' Magazine The imagination and music of Ben Schneider knows no boundaries For his last album as Lord Huron 2012's 'Lonesome Dreams' Schneider fabricated the life and work of fictitious novelist George Ranger Johnson building up a detailed illustrative backstory to supplement his conceptual musical work Schneider who is also a talented graphic designer has a nice habit of developing rich artistic complements to his expansive and adventurous musical narratives which take on titles like 'Time To Run' 'Ends of the Earth' and 'I Will Be Back One Day' The new album has nods to numerous film genres and motifs from westerns to '50s pulp to foreign new waveLP Heavyweight black double vinyl in gatefold sleeve includes a copy of the album on CD
Tracklist
1. Love Like Ghosts
2. Until the Night Turns
3. Dead Man's Hand
4. Hurricane (Johnnie's Theme)
5. La Belle Fleur Sauvage
6. Fool for Love
7. The World Ender
8. Meet Me in the Woods
9. The Yawning Grave
10. Frozen Pines
11. Cursed
12. Way Out There
13. Louisa
14. The Night We Met