2: Strange Trails

Support the Official Release You can listen to Lord Huron’s Strange Trails on: Apple Music Spotify Or purchase Lonesome Dreams on: Amazon Music Links Previous episode - Bad Music Hertz Episode 1: Lonesome Dreams Michael the Marmot Strange Trails “Teaser Trailer” Strange Trails No. 7 “The World Ender” Comic Book Paul McCartney’s RAM 3. Ram On 11. Ram On Stephen King’s 11/22/63 William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience “The World Ender” - Official Music Video Major, minor, and diminished chords explained (with examples) Song titles to lyrical speaker, as noted on the LP labels: “Love Like Ghosts” - Francine Lu “Until the Night Turns” - D. Redmayne/Phantom Riders “Dead Man’s Hand” - Buck Vernon “Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme)” - D. Redmayne/Phantom Riders “La Belle Fleur Sauvage” - Remy Fusil “Fool For Love” - Buck Vernon “The World Ender” - D. Redmayne/Phantom Riders “Meet Me in the Woods” - Francine Lu/Claude Fox “The Yawning Grave” - Traditional “Frozen Pines” - H.W. Justine “Cursed” - Buck Vernon “Way Out There” - Traditional “Louisa” - Buck Vernon “The Night We Met” - Francine Lu “Fool For Love” - Official Music Video The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Planetarium by Sufjan Stevens, Bryce Dessner, Nico Muhly, and James McAlister Definitions Reprise: “The repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition.” (Wiki) Theme (Also called “Subject”): “A recognizable melody upon which part or all of a composition is based on.” (Wiki) Rockabilly: “One of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South … The term ‘rockabilly’ itself is a portmanteau of ‘rock’ (from “rock ‘n’ roll”) and ‘hillbilly’, the latter a reference to the country music that contributed strongly to the style.” (Wiki) References “Yeah I definitely let things spin off into fiction. But, my sort of approach or philosophy has always been to begin with something that happened to me, or to someone close. There’s always something at the centre that’s from a real experience. To me that feels like the only way for the work to be true.” - AAA Backstage interview with Ben Schneider “All the stories on the album are either about my life or the lives of people who are close to me. I look at them through a fictional lens, but they all come from stuff that’s happened to us.” - LA Music Blog interview with Ben Schneider Marc’s Sophomore LP Categories and Examples Sophomore Slump 👎🏻 Mumford & Sons 2009’s Sigh No More → 2012’s Babel Florence + The Machine 2010’s Between Two Lungs → 2011’s Ceremonials Sequelitis 😐 Real Estate 2011’s Days → 2014’s Atlas Phoenix 2009’s Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix → 2013’s Bankrupt! Transformative 👍🏻 Fleet Foxes 2008’s Fleet Foxes → 2011’s Helplessness Blues Sturgill Simpson 2014’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music → 2016’s A Sailor’s Guide to Earth Art ♫︎