Vide Noir

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AlbumApr 20 / 201812 songs, 48m 58s
Indie Rock
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Inspired by long drives across sprawling L.A., Lord Huron’s dreamy third album is music for soul-searching. It begins, like many journeys do, with a broken heart. \"She went west to chase her dreams/She took my money, but she didn’t take me,” confesses frontman Ben Schneider, before setting off to get her back. Guided by an “Emerald Star,” his quest leads him to fortune tellers (“Ancient Names”) and the edge of the earth (“Back From the Edge”) in a sepia-toned daze of heartland harmonies, fuzzy guitars, and psychedelic soundscapes by Flaming Lips production mastermind Dave Fridmann. But the magic of *Vide Noir* is its sense of story, which wisely suggests that a happy ending depends on what you’re searching for.

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8 / 10

Lord Huron have managed to evolve forward incorporating electric elements in a major way without forfeiting any kind of integrity.

LA four-piece Lord Huron's third album 'Vide Noir' is a cosmic folk-rock trip with a concept. Read the NME review

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Dave Fridmann's presence was detectable early on. When Lord Huron decided to release the one-two simultaneous punch known as "Ancient Names"—Parts I and II—as singles leading up to the release of their new album, Vide Noir, the sonic differences were

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'Vide Noir' by Lord Huron: Lord Huron bring new ideas to their sound without totally shaking up the genre in our review of 'Vide Noir'

Ben Schneider’s band have lost the ethereal Americana and adopted a bigger muse: the whole cosmos

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Lord Huron seems to be staring up from that campfire into an unanswering sky.

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