Lord Huron

Lord Huron is an American indie folk band based in Los Angeles. The group's debut album, Lonesome Dreams, was released in 2012 on Iamsound in the U.S. and Play It Again Sam in UK & Ireland in January 2013.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} Following the release of the album, the group appeared on The Tonight Show and their song "Ends of the Earth" was featured in the series finale of the television series Community.^[6] The band’s name was inspired by Lake Huron, the lake which band founder Ben Schneider grew up visiting, where he would spend evenings playing music around the campfire.^[7] Lord Huron's album "Strange Trails" was released in April 2015.

Formation

Founding member Ben Schneider began writing music in his hometown of Okemos, Michigan. Schneider went on to study visual art at the University of Michigan and finished his degree in France, before moving to New York City where he worked for an artist.^[7] In 2005, Schneider moved to Los Angeles. In 2010, Schneider formed Lord Huron as a solo project, recording his first few EPs entirely on his own and steadily adding members to help play in live shows, most of whom he had known since childhood.^[8]

Members

Current

• Ben Schneider - guitar, vocals
• Mark Barry - percussion, vocals
• Miguel Briseño - bass, keys, percussion
• Tom Renaud - guitar, vocals

Additional

• Brandon Walters - guitar, vocals (touring)^[9]

Former

• Peter Mowry - guitar
• Brett Farkas - guitar, vocals
• Karl Kerfoot - guitar, vocals

In popular culture

The band's track "Fool for Love" is used in the end credits of Season 5 Episode 1 of HBO's Girls.

Their song "Ends of the Earth" is the track of end credits of Season 3 Episode 12 of Shameless. "Ends of the Earth" also appears in Endless Love and Walking With Dinosaurs.

The songs "She Lit a Fire" and "Ends of the Earth" are used in the film A Walk in the Woods.^[10]

Lonesome Dreams

Their first full-length album, Lonesome Dreams, was released on October 9, 2012.^[11] It peaked at No. 3 on Billboard's Heatseekers Albums chart, selling 3,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 87,000 copies in the United States as of April 2015.^[12]

With the release of Lonesome Dreams, the band also slowly released a series of music videos, all filmed in a western '70s style, which Schneider says was the focal point and narrative for the album. “We had this fun idea that Lonesome Dreams was kind of this series of old adventure tales. It's sort of a collection of pulp fiction and we wanted the videos to kind of reflect that and have that same feel and style,” Schneider said in an interview. They also decided to release a theatrical version of the videos.^[13]

Strange Trails

The band released their sophomore album, Strange Trails, on April 6, 2015, in the United Kingdom and April 7, 2015, in the United States. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 23, and Folk Albums at No. 1, and No. 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, with 18,000 copies sold.^[14]

Discography

Albums

Extended Plays

• Into the Sun EP (self-released, 2010)
• Mighty EP (Linian Music, 2010)
• Time to Run EP (Iamsound, 2012)

References