Lord Huron pre-Lonesome Dreams EPs my beloved
The crunchy lo-fi production with Ben sounding like he's singing an echo across open water because Into the Sun was recorded with a laptop in like 2009 by a 26 year old freelance art teacher at a family cabin on the waterfront of the namesake lake itself with a pun name appropriate for a Byronic romantic wanderer character and no idea a more produced version of that sound would see him lead a world touring band. How the last two minutes of We Went Wild becomes a jam band session. The slightly janky photoshopped filter-drenched covers with elephants and temple statues giving surreal out-of-all-place vibes. The very gap year "I just got back from Bali and Jamaica and I wanna put some Indonesian and Calypso vibes into this thing" of the design and the steel drums. The fact it was originally just on Bandcamp and cyrptic CDs left on tables at festivals.
Ben wtf does this mean? Who keeps his back to the water? Whose stuff is at what temple? I love it. Never get less cryptic.
The more outright horny lyrics than anything on the albums tbh:
The fact that even in the first 6 songs ever there's already lines that make you think it might be references connecting characters:
The Auld Lang Syne that's not on the EPs but totally is of the era and sound, with some new and tres Huronic lyrics like "there's a wind that calls your name, I hear the sea call mine"
Hearing When Will I See You again live could fix me I guess
