The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1

Album ∙ Alternative ∙ 2025

Lord Huron

Lord Huron’s reverb-soaked, sepia-toned Americana has worn several faces over the years: the wide-eyed pioneer (Strange Trails), the lovelorn drifter (Vide Noir), the wistful cowboy just looking for a cold beer and place to hang up his spurs (Long Lost). As its title suggests, The Cosmic Selector leans into the spacier side of their sound, channeling moody, Lynchian atmospheres (“Looking Back”), ’50s ballads (“It All Comes Back”), and front-porch hymns (“Looking Back”) with the kind of gauzy, interstellar remove of late-’90s bands like Mercury Rev and Sparklehorse.

Part of the project’s charm is that it never tries to sound too earnest or authentic in the moods it captures, instead embracing them for the cinematic archetypes they are, whether it’s the lonesome highway of “Who Laughs Last” (narrated by the incomparable Kristen Stewart) or the washed-up performer longing to see their name in lights one last time (“The Comedian”).