Lord Huron

★★★★ Long Lost POLYDOR. CD/DL/LP/MC

Arch Michigan pop-folkies’ fourth album.

In 2018, Vide

Noir went Top 10 in the US and after almost a decade at the coalface, Lord Huron are suddenly big news. On this fourth LP, they’ve submerged the songs in an incoherent concept involving an imaginary studio chief of their real studio, but the music – a little Lumineers, a little Fleet Foxes – stands up for itself. Aside from Time’s Blur, the closing 14-minute instrumental slab of ambience, and the spooked Twin Peaksy Drops In The Lake, they’re catchy and elegiac, so on Mine Forever the timeless Hank Marvin twang snuggles up alongside Ben Schneider’s warm voice. Love Me Like You Used To (“I dream most every night that I never left you”) is a heartbroken earworm and when song of exile Twenty Long Years ends, it immediately starts up again with a woozy choir and all’s well with the world.