Best New Bands » the stranger http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Lord Huron’s Melancholy Tropacalia at Echoplex http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/lord-huron-at-echoplex/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/live-reviews/lord-huron-at-echoplex/#comments Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:00:00 +0000 I’ve been anxious to see Lord Huron ever since I saw a clip of their set at CMJ. They sounded like what would happen if Local Natives, Animal Collecive, and Paul Simon got together to write songs over drinks on a tropical island. Each song is a multilayered blend of guitars, summery beats and percussion,

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