Welcome to Wheels Off, a show about the messy reality of the creative life.

I'm Rhett Miller.

Ben Schneider is the founding member and sort of brains behind slash front man slash face of the band Lord Huron.

He hails from Michigan near Lake Huron, the titular lake from his band.

And he makes music that is better listened to than described, obviously, as his almost all music.

But if I were to describe it, as I do, I think, a few times during the course of this interview,

probably you can tell that I'm a fan if you listen to this.

If I were to describe it, I would say that his music is cinematic, open, airy, evocative.

It's really beautiful.

It's really moving.

And then when you see his band perform live, there are moments

of intense, loud, rock and roll, big, you know, floor toms pounding and, and guitars wailing

and him screaming and lots of multi-layered vocal harmonies happening. And man, it's just, it's really great.

He's one of my favorite musicians out there working right now.

Not that any of us are out there working at the moment.

But his band has been able to put together a new album, Long Lost, that will be dropping in May, and I got to listen to it,

and it's great. Unsurprisingly, it's great, as is Ben Schneider. And I don't know that he does

a lot of just sit down, sort of introspection, talk about Ben Schneider interviews,

so I feel pretty lucky that he did that for me, for us, here on Wheelsoft.

So please welcome to Wheels Off, Lord Hurons, Ben Schneider.

Welcome to Wheels Off, Ben Schneider.

Hello, thank you so much for joining me.

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