The general rule in popular music is that the more different influences you splice your work with, the narrower the path you show the listener down. True, the playlist age has made a lot of that want for conformity seem archaic. But in the case of Lord Huron their take on Americana is something that frequently asks more questions than it answers.
One of them is how come such an abstraction is so popular. Whilst Ben Schneider and friends remain mostly under the radar in Britain, they currently out stream the likes of Oasis, Sam Fender and Blur, an unlikely feat perhaps for a catalogue which blends elements of country, surf, folk, indie rock and dream pop into a darkly cinematic whole.
The Cosmic Selector Vol 1 is if anything even more Lynchian by design, especially on the outstanding tale of things gone rotten Bag of Bones, whilst Kristen Stewart delivers a spoken word monologue which neatly fits the terse funk of Who Laughs Last. Part of the appeal is in guessing which corner will be turned next, the melancholy opener Looking Back soon followed with the banjo toting Nothing That I Need. The peak comes early though via the questing layered rustics of Is There Anybody Out There, a track that provides some answers, just not to the things you wanted to know.
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The Voice Of Unreason 
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