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Jan 14, 201380The production of his debut is appropriately epic, its echoing acoustic guitars and yearning, Fleet Foxy vocals mixed with cowboy cattle calls and Pawnee chants.
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Jan 10, 201380Ultimately, God is less in the details, here, and Lonesome Dreams' success lies largely in the irrefutably vaulting sweep of the music and the ineffable air of melancholy-dented redemption which it so effectively conjures.
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Jan 3, 201380Its cavernous production, Massed campfire guitars and rolling melodies conjure prairies, river and mountains from shore to shining shore. [Feb 2013, p.75]
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Nov 30, 201275A considerable amount of Lonesome Dreams' charm, however, emanates from the record's bric-a-brac percussion, and it's what gives each track its unique complexion. [Oct/Nov 2012, p.123]
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Oct 9, 201274Impeccably crafted, Lonesome Dreams sets out into the sun, toward shores far and away.
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Nov 5, 201270If the music grew much gauzier, it would cloy. But for most of the album, Lord Huron stays poised precisely at the edge of weightlessness.
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Oct 9, 201270It's ambitious, beguiling stuff.
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Oct 25, 201267Ben Schneider opens himself up to collaboration, even recording with a band, but his songwriting still merits a singular interface with the listener.
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Oct 10, 201265His conspicuous over-reliance on the same, tired lyrical themes does the record in, highlighting just how short on variety the LP is. [No. 92, p.55]
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Feb 6, 201360It sounds like the soundtrack to an odd dream about a Western film. [Mar 2013, p.96]
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Oct 31, 201260Lonesome Dreams emerges, a bit shadowy to be sure, as a record about returning home from the elemental, stylistic and genre wilds. It is a meditation as much about oikos as odyssey.
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Oct 26, 201260Even with the cultural grandiosity described here, in many ways, Lord Huron's music is pretty standard Americana fair: catchy twang through a hazy lens.
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Oct 9, 201260While it's a pleasant enough listen, the entire album falls short of the potential opulence hinted at by its best tracks.
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Oct 9, 201256Lonesome Dreams' instant knock of familiarity will prove comforting for some, but it gives these tracks something of a plug-and-play feel. Many songs are dramatically assembled, and all of them move, but when they move in pretty much the same ways as another, spryer band, it's that much harder to get caught up in their attendant drama.
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Jan 22, 201350A patchy debut effort.
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