![]() ![]() “Time to Run” was clearly the song the crowd knew best, mouthing the words and shaking the hallowed floors of the Fillmore. For the latter, guitars were traded in for drums and tambourines as Lord Huron ended their regular set in a rambunctious fury of percussion. There was little banter, with Schneider choosing instead to focus on whether or not he’d wear his Western hat-it ultimately made several appearances-and wailing on the drum pad situated next to his dual mics during “We Went Wild” and closer “Time to Run”. Lyrics to The Ghost On The Shore song by LORD HURON: Im just a man, but I know that Im damned All the dead seem to know where I am Til it began on the. 2012 Debut Full-Length On Vinyl LP Featuring Time To Run, The Ghost On The Shore, She Lit A Fire & More Lord Hurons debut full-length album. While the songs and vocals are his property (Lord Huron is technically a solo project), the show was the product of five musicians embracing the contact high of their shared enthusiasm. Lead singer Ben Schneider mystically jingled a handful of bells before launching into a spirited rendition of “Ends of the Earth” from the band’s debut album, Lonesome Dreams. When the lights finally dimmed, Lord Huron took the stage to a sea of lights strategically placed at the back of the stage to simulate the headlights of locomotives. Adding to the surrealism of my past experience with Lord Huron, the band’s roadies worked tirelessly to set-up equipment, a marked contrast from drummer Mark Barry using a bench seat as a tom-tom. The show that evening was part of San Francisco’s annual Noise Pop Festival, and I had to wonder if the indie cred (whatever that term means anymore) of Noise Pop held enough water to make the actual music one was going to hear a secondary concern. I heard snippets of more than a few conversations between people confessing they’d never heard the band. On Tuesday night, I decided to test my brain’s nostalgia factor: was Lord Huron as captivating as my memory insisted, or had the absurdity of seeing them at sea, standing toe-to-toe with the bass player for six songs, still riding the high of a day at Treasure Island possibly tainted my recollections? It was certainly odd to see a sold-out Fillmore crowd awaiting the group, not because the band isn’t deserving of such success but rather because I’d been so spoiled originally to not have to share them with 2,000 strangers. That band, I would shortly learn, was damn talented. Aesthetic Moodboards // The Ghost on the Shore by Lord Huron. That band, I would later learn, was called Lord Huron. clutching lord hurons 2012 album lonesome dreams to my chest as I lay dying no one. ![]() As we slowly chugged across the bay, a band I’d never heard of set-up a minimal assembly of cords and amps, the five of them cramped shoulder-to-shoulder in the belly of the small ship. My fiancé had won an Instagram contest during day two of the Treasure Island Music Festival, and her hazy photo of Major Lazer had qualified us to join a dozen other festivalgoers in catching a ride back to San Francisco on a party boat. ![]() As is often the case, the first time I saw Lord Huron was on a boat. ![]()
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