Today, Lord Huron shared the deluxe edition of their fourth album Long Lost. The new version includes two new songs, "Your Other Life" and "Ton Autre Vie," which share two different perspectives of the same concept. Although the track "Your Other Life" was recorded during the Long Lost sessions, it didn't make the album because vocalist and songwriter Ben Schneider wasn't pleased with its initial rendition as he'd originally envisioned a woman singing the song in French. So they asked Sarah Dugas to help their vision come to life.
"We called up Sarah Dugas and recorded it that way as well, not really knowing what we’d do with it, just seeing where it went," Schneider recalled. "She did an amazing job, not just with the singing but also with the translation. Listening to them side by side, I felt like the songs were made stronger by their proximity to one another. It seemed to bolster the themes of the lyrics—leading a double life, having wildly different perspectives on a situation.
"After the two versions were made," he continues, "the band couldn't understand releasing one without the other. I started thinking of ways to present the songs together and had the idea of being able to switch or fade between them in real time. Almost like switching between the two lives implied in the song. I thought including a visual element would make it even stronger. A cross-fadeable, double music video sounded pretty interesting."
The result is a choose-your-own-adventure experience between the song's English version sung by Ben Schneider and the French version by Sarah Dugas, accompanied with two different videos directed by Lee Martin. It's been dubbed a "Music Video as a Multiverse."
Find that special video experience here, and listen to the two versions of the track below.
