The band played to the crowd, sometimes rocking out and sometimes, like with one of their earlier tunes, “The Ghost on the Shore” with its washing strokes of harmonium, played by Miguel, to “Wait by the River,” as Ben crooned, sauntering from one tier to the next, as the spotlight illuminated each flick of the hands. The music builds and builds to envelop your ears, and with the brilliant stage set up you get drawn into the story. I hear the word “cinematic” thrown around a lot when it comes to the music of Lord Huron, but there really is an expansive quality to it. Ben, along with Mark Barry on drums, Miguel Briseño on bass, and Tom Renaud on guitar - with Misty Boyce on piano and keyboards and Brandon Walters on guitar - were set up along tiers of the stage amidst the desert backdrop. So, on a hot afternoon overlooking the Baltimore Harbor, I had the great fortune to witness Lord Huron as they took the stage on their first tour since music touring stopped due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Īfter a beautiful set by singer-songwriter Allison Ponthier, Lord Huron took the stage to the slow rise of lights at the back of the stage like a blooming sunrise beyond the Western horizon to the opening strums of “The Moon Doesn’t Mind” and into the single “Mine Forever” and the danceable groove of “Meet Me in the Woods.”Īfter a quick breather, Ben Schneider (vocals / guitar) announced that the band was glad to be back on the road, having just started their first tour in two years just a handful of days before. There’s a mystic quality that takes the listener along for a ride and keeps them coming back. There’s something to the music of Lord Huron that flows from aesthetics of great fiction, whether it be pulp novels of the turn of the last century in Strange Trails idealized visions of the future in Vide Noir or the imagined world of early variety television that inhabits Long Lost, the most recent release from this LA-by-way-of-Lansing quartet. I hadn’t been able to catch them on stage however - that is until Monday night at the MECU Pavilion in Baltimore. But one spin of Strange Tails and I was hooked. I have to admit that until a good friend of mine turned me onto them a few years ago, Lord Huron wasn’t on my radar. Lord Huron performs at MECU Pavilion on Sept.
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