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Pitchfork
d. 9. Oct. 2012
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Paul Thompson
d. 9. Oct. 2012
"Lonesome Dreams' instant knock of familiarity will prove comforting for some, but it gives these tracks something of a plug-and-play feel. Many songs are dramatically assembled, and all of them move, but when they move in pretty much the same ways as another, spryer band, it's that much harder to get caught up in their attendant drama. It doesn't help Schneider, head often planted in a very different decade, seems to be having some trouble saying much about the present through the lens of the past".
The observer
d. 13. Jan. 2013
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Neil Spencer
d. 13. Jan. 2013
"The production of his debut is appropriately epic, its echoing acoustic guitars and yearning, Fleet Foxy vocals mixed with cowboy cattle calls and Pawnee chants ... Something original".
fRoots
2013 March
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Ian Anderson
2013 March
"Lord Huron, originally devised as a solo project by Michigan-born, West Coast-based songwriter Ben Schneider, are now a proper-job quintet. They've brought that old Byrds/Simon & Garfunkel sound bang up to date with a verve and a world view that has much more in common with the contemporary sound of Vampire Weekend than all those limp CSNY-wannabies who plague us these days. Lonesome Dreams is stuffed with catchy songs full of dense, extended harmonies and multi-layered chiming guitars that sometimes echo the weave and dynamism of Afropop as much as the classic 1960s jangle, and even bring to mind a tinge of Everly in the harmonies on tracks like The Man Who Lives Forever".