Ben Schneider is a visual artist who studied painting, and his music - as Lord Huron - reflects that. It's not merely the covers for his two EPs - warmly evocative, slightly foggy images that showcase the natural beauty of figures, water, landscape, and light together. The ethereal, tropical songs themselves have their origins in the visual.
Schneider and his four-piece backing band will be coming to RIBCO on May 4, and in a phone interview this week, he described the translation from the visual to the aural.
"When I'm writing songs, I usually try to tell a story ... ," he said. "A lot of times, the way I'll start is by getting an image in mind and then try to translate that image ... sonically. ... I just kind of try to make a soundtrack for that image. It's almost like making a little film in your head, and then making music that will go with it."
