Ghost on the Shore

Ben Schneider writes Lord Huron songs like they’re scenes from a film you’ve half-remembered from childhood — all reverb, all moonlight, all suggestion rather than statement. “Ghost on the Shore” is one of the loveliest of these, a slow, swaying acoustic lullaby about a man trying to say goodbye to someone who may or may not have ever been there.

The production keeps everything at arm’s length. The guitar sounds like it’s being played in the next room. Schneider’s voice has the specific reverb-soaked quality of a voice heard through a doorway, and the song fades out rather than resolving — which is the only honest ending for a song about a haunting.