Ears Wide Open: Lord Huron

Kevin Bronson on September 24th, 2010

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It’s hard to believe, given the tropical haze that permeates the early material from L.A.’s Lord Huron, that Ben Schneider wrote the first batch of his songs last spring on a getaway to shores of Lake Huron in his native Michigan. Lord Huron’s debut EP “Into the Sun” is meticulously layered pop excursion, shrouded in reverb and bathed in metaphor. Somewhere in the grainy orchestrations are lovely nuggets of melody, and it’s worth adjusting your ears to sort them out. Lord Huron’s second EP, “Mighty,” is due in the fall, and here’s a preview:

||| Stream: “When Will I See You Again”

||| Live: Lord Huron plays Saturday (7:30 p.m.) at the Waved Out II festival at the Echoplex and Origami Vinyl, which features Dungen, the Entrance Band, Sharon Van Etten, John Carpenter and others.

After the jump, Waved Out set times:
Saturday, Sept. 25

ECHOPLEX

4:30pm ”“ 5pm Young Prisms

5:15pm ”“ 5:40pm Summer Darling

6pm-6:30pm Shannon & the Clams

6:50pm ”“ 7:20pm Hanni El Khatib

7:40pm-8:10pm Lord Huron

8:30pm Sharon Van Etten

9:30pm The Entrance Band

10:30pm Dungen

ORIGAMI VINYL, 1816 W Sunset Blvd

2pm- 2:30pm Bowery Beasts