Vide Noir Tracklist
Vide Noir (French for “dark void” or “black void”) is the third album from Lord Huron. It was first teased on Twitter with a flashing gemstone video, followed by a 38-second clip telling fans to follow the Emerald Star (which is a hint to the final track on the album, “Emerald Star,”) and finally a minute long clip which included a phone number, 1-877-VIDE-NOIR. Fans who called the number found a couple of games available, and if you pressed “9” the album’s tracklisting was read aloud.
The first tracks to be released from Vide Noir were “Ancient Names, Pt. I” and “Ancient Names, Pt. II.”
On February 16th, the band debut the album artwork via pre-orders, and released the studio version of “Wait By The River.”
On March 30th, “When The Night Is Over” was released on all streaming platforms. The band describes the song as “a groovy, rain-drenched, neon-lit, slow-burne.”
“Vide Noir” Q&A
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What has inspired this album?
Ben Schneider (singer and guitarist) explained in a statement:
My nighttime drives ranged all over the city—across the twinkling grid of the valley, into the creeping shadows of the foothills, through downtown’s neon canyons and way out to the darksome ocean. I started imagining Vide Noir as an epic odyssey through the city, across dimensions, and out into the cosmos. A journey along the spectrum of human experience. A search for meaning amidst the cold indifference of The Universe.
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What have the artists said about the album?
The band have previously talked about Vide Noir being a departure from their previous sound, with Ben Schneider elaborating:
I think, more than anything, that album was a stretching. I don’t know, trying some new things in the studio, working out our production muscles, and learning some things about how to produce a record and the different ways you can do it. Yeah, I think the biggest departure in terms of that record was just all the things we were trying out in the studio, really blowing things out making them sound distorted. Yeah, and just experimenting. And I think we learned a lot of things from that that we applied to [Long Lost]. And I don’t know, for me, all the records exist on a continuum, each one a chance to learn something new and hopefully, apply it to the next thing we do.
–via atwoodmagazine.com
