#Just the two of us album cover how to#

And then his follow-up is More Songs I Know. His first record is called Just Some Songs I Know- heвЂ™s this handsome guy and he just knows some songs and he decided to record them. And I really love these two Handsome Scott records.

I had fun trying to communicate something about the artists through the way theyвЂ™re standing or the names of the records. At first I wasnвЂ™t sure if I wanted to do this with photography maybe, but during the pandemic I started painting again and it just felt right. The thing youвЂ™re supposed to remember is completely obliterated in this case. So I kind of took three of those bits and ignored one of them, obviously. It was all about catching peopleвЂ™s attention at the record store, so itвЂ™d be huge type or a really bright background and then the star, of course, and their face, so you donвЂ™t forget their face. ItвЂ™s meant to evoke those old record covers-I love how they used to use bold color backgrounds. I ended up taking a photograph of myself and using that as the reference image that I painted this from.

#Just the two of us album cover how to#

I knew the way I wanted the cover to look-I just had to figure out how to make it. Sometimes thatвЂ™s been through music and sometimes thatвЂ™s been through art, sometimes through music with art.вЂќ

вЂњI just feel like thereвЂ™s something I want to express and IвЂ™m trying to find a way to express it. вЂњTheyвЂ™ve always kind of been in tandem,вЂќ he says about his art and music. Here, Schneider-whoвЂ™s been making art for as long as heвЂ™s been making music, and who also made the covers of the three previous Lord Huron albums-takes us through a selection of the artwork he created to bring that other dimension so convincingly to (after-)life. ItвЂ™s a way to add depth and texture to something without having to fill in all the details-you can kind of hint at it, and I think peopleвЂ™s imaginations do the rest.вЂќ вЂњWe wanted it to feel like thereвЂ™s this parallel world alongside ours where these people actually existed and were making music and somehow the threshold between these two worlds is flimsier today than it used to be, so we can kind of view in there. вЂќItвЂ™s as though youвЂ™re peering into an eBay from another dimension,вЂќ says Schneider. They even created some fake ephemera-articles of clothing worn by the Phantom Riders, or drumsticks used by Hefty Lefty-for fans to seek out on the internet. They also invented a number of the bands and artists they imagined might have recorded at Whispering Pines in order to uncover its mysterious past and undo the persistent and ineluctable destruction of time. Adding to their already meticulously constructed lore, Lord Huron, for this album, created a fake public access show called Alive From Whispering Pines hosted by Tubbs Tarbell, the ghostly caretaker of the studio. Lord Huron have summoned those spirits for Long Lost, but not just through its songs. So we just started imagining these people and their backstories and their music and what they were doing in the studio.вЂќ

It was abandoned for about 25 years before we got in there, but it feels like there are spirits hanging around there from whoeverвЂ™s been through there. We were curious about the history of it-we found a little bit of info about it, but itвЂ™s kind of sketchy in terms of who was in there. вЂњItвЂ™s kind of a time capsule-it was built some time in the вЂ™70s, and it still looks that way.

вЂњWeвЂ™ve been working at Whispering Pines for the past seven years or so,вЂќ explains Schneider over Zoom. Really, the Los Angeles four-piece-who formed in 2010 and are headed up by Ben Schneider-have created their own time-space continuum, a truly immersive parallel universe centered in their very real Whispering Pines studio, but spanning a mysterious history there that predates their involvement in the place, and in which the past and the present, reality and fiction, all collide and coexist as one. ItвЂ™s much bigger and more complex than that. ItвЂ™s an album thatвЂ™s alive with the ghosts-literal and metaphorical-that haunt us every day yet to call it an вЂњalbumвЂќ is to do it a disservice. That idea, on a very basic level, is the concept and inspiration behind Lord Huron вЂ™s magnificent fourth record, Long Lost.