Lord Huron

By design, Lord Huron has a sound as big as the great outdoors—the band’s music brings to mind desert sunsets, snow-capped mountains, and two-lane roads cutting through the Midwestern plains. Led by Michigan native Ben Schneider, the Los Angeles-based project emerged on record in 2010, just after Fleet Foxes had rekindled the indie world's interest in harmony-drenched folk-rock. Alongside peers like Local Natives, Lord Huron took the scene’s core elements—layered voices, expansive reverb, guitar jangles, pastoral lyrics—and added memorable shout-along choruses on tracks like 2015’s triumphant “Meet Me in the Woods.” While early Lord Huron EPs sounded raw and focused on loops, thanks to Schneider’s homemade recording technique, the project grew more polished without losing its rustic charm when he assembled a full band for 2012’s Lonesome Dreams. The outfit’s cinematic qualities weren’t lost on music supervisors, either—its songs have been featured in several movies and shows, with “The Night We Met” charting globally after soundtracking a key scene of teen drama 13 Reasons Why. Still, Lord Huron’s earthy tone remains its most indelible hallmark—through the woozy psychedelia of 2018’s Vide Noir and lush, open-road fantasias of 2022’s Long Lost. Meanwhile, the band, bolstered by Schneider’s training as a visual artist, has sunk its teeth deeper into the world of film, creating the eerie, gossamer score for the 2023 indie flick The Starling Girl.