![]() So, we started imagining who’d gone through there and created these characters of old showbiz folks who’d come in and out of, and what they’d done there. “We found a little information, but there’s not much. “We’ve always wondered about who had worked there before us,” he continues. “It’s this great old studio built in the early ’70s we took it over after it had been abandoned for about 25 years, so it’s filled with all this old outdated gear that we had to strip out and rebuild. “We’ve been working there for the past seven years, did our last three records there – it’s kind of like our clubhouse. ![]() ![]() “I guess the genesis for this record was it started in our studio, Whispering Pines,” Ben explains. As for Long Lost, the fourth of Lord Huron’s LPs, ghosts return in a setting closer to home than usual. Through Zoom, I can practically see the storyboards in his mind drafting the experience of a mother to be – admittedly something of a tangent from the dead men and cosmonauts we’ve been introduced to on their previous records. “Waiting to put a record out is like… I don’t know what it’s like being pregnant, but I feel like it’s like that: where you just can’t wait to get it out in the world and let people meet your creation.” Upon e-meeting the band’s frontman, Ben Schneider, it’s clear that metaphors and alternative perspectives are embedded in his way of thinking. With a fourth album on the way, Lord Huron’s extensive universe of characters and landscapes is due to continue, meaning I need never bother downloading Audible for a free trial. I’ve never taken to audiobooks, but I’m a sucker for musical narrative.
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