![]() The songs came to him through some paranormal experience and were being performed by musicians who appeared and quickly disappeared like a mirage.Īnd that’s the magic of Long Lost, an enjoyable collection of great western-tinged country and rock’n’roll songs (‘ Not Dead Yet’ is unapologetically Elvis) that are nostalgically authentic but have a lingering haunting context. The backstory goes further with Mr Tubbs Tarbell, a Cowboy-style record producer who wrote a letter describing how the album Long Lost came to be. The advert is convincing but they all the aforementioned are fabricated artists. But most significantly is the commercial advertising the best records from Whispering Pines studio – from Frankie Lou, Handsome Scott, Leigh Green, Donny & Midge (this is the song which is actually performed with singer Allison Ponthier called ‘I Lied’) and L’ile Cosmique. ![]() In the videos we see a fictional guitarist Roy Casey, actors in films and a made-up band called Phantom Riders, all performing their craft with blurred-out heads. Imagine The Shining if it were a music production setting, rather than a hotel.Īs is custom before the release of Lord Huron albums, the Los Angeles group teased their fans with obscure trailers and mysterious music videos, as well cryptic Instagram posts. ![]() Questions such as: who recorded here before? Do their ghosts still linger around the sound booth? From Lonesome Dreams, to Strange Trails to Vide Noir, all three of their previous records have songs written from the perspective of fictional characters – who could forget the World Enders gang? – but fourth record Long Lost takes this one step further by pretending that their songs are actually written and performed by other people, hinting that it could be the ghosts of the Whispering Pines record studio. It still has much of the décor of decades gone by and the fact that it had not been used for 20 years or so sparked into alive the already imaginative Lord Huron into wondering what the history of the place would be like. Custom built for good acoustics in the 1960s – rumour has it for Sam Cooke – it was abandoned until Ben Schneider and his bandmates (Mark Barry, Miguel Briseño and Tom Renaud) bought it seven years ago through Craigslist. However Whispering Pines – an almost hidden Los Angeles-situated place in which Lord Huron has recorded their fourth LP Long Lost – is so important that it’s actually the starting point for their new album’s ideas. It’s not often nowadays that a record studio has a great significance on the concept of the album – well not in the same gravity as The Beatles’ Abbey Road – and instead is often merely a production detail, alongside the sound engineer. But the feelin’ was real.” – Mr Tubbs Tarbell ![]() “ It was like some long, lost dream come to life, a forgotten classic from a parallel dimension, the echo of a memory that wasn’t mine. ![]()
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