Lord Huron enchanted a sold-out Red Rocks Amphitheatre by combining their signature cinematically rich, western noir storytelling with a first-class musical performance.
The Los Angeles-based band’s Cosmic Selector Tour leans hard into vintage western aesthetics with illuminating desert-like props, projected star-filled skies, and two dancers in period attire who translated the music’s emotional currents into choreographed movement.
Red Rocks seems purpose-built for a Lord Huron show. Frontman Ben Schneider has spent more than a decade constructing a rich musical universe dense with lore, and the towering red rock formations framed the stage perfectly, reinforcing the cosmic Western themes on display all night.
The band opened with “Who Laughs Last,” a surf-rock track with a punchy baseline that starts with a recorded spoken-word narration by actress Kristen Stewart. Schneider leaned into the song’s cinematic nature by using a payphone as a microphone. His face filled the screen above as he appeared to strain to get across to a loved one on the other end. From there, the band gave fans a sample of their entire catalog. One early highlight was “Ends of the Earth” from 2012’s Lonesome Dreams, which elicited the kind of swaying sing-along that only happens when a song has connected deeply with fans over the years.
After finishing the twangy “Twenty Long Years,” from their 2021 album Long Lost, Schneider paused to joke that “we have officially entered the country portion of our set.” The next songs weren’t classically country, but featured retro Americana-styled songs like “Love Me Like You Used To” and “La Belle Fleur Savage.”
Lord Huron’s 2015 album Strange Trails featured heavily on the back half of the set, including “Meet Me in the Woods” and “The Night We Met.” The latter is the band’s certified platinum hit with over 3.7 billion Spotify streams that had all of Red Rocks swaying and singing together once again.
After a brief break, Schneider and company brought the energy back up with “The World Ender,” followed by the encore-appropriate “When the Night is Over,” from 2018’s Vide Noir. That wasn’t truly the end of the night, however, with “Not Dead Yet” and then the hauntingly beautiful “It All Comes Back,” from 2025’s The Cosmic Selector Vol. 1, serving as the actual closing song.
After being immersed for two hours in Lord Huron’s universe, what became obvious was that this is a band that isn’t content to just play great music. They are intent on weaving together mythic storytelling, awe-inspiring visuals, and beautiful musical arrangements for a complete experience.
There might not be another venue on Lord Huron’s Cosmic Selector Tour to complement the band’s cinematic world quite like Red Rocks, but their shows continue through the fall and are well worth checking out.
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