Midlife Crisis

I'm having one and gives me comfort that Ben from Lord Huron is having one too.

"Because I’m getting older, I’m sort of reaching a, not necessarily a crossroads, but a moment of reflection in my life where I just had my head down doing this band for fifteen years kind of nonstop. And I recently had some time off the road to reflect on everything that’s transpired over the past fifteen years for the first time. I’m getting to that age where I’m starting to think about my life and realising, I don’t have unlimited time. I think when I was younger, I had this sense that I’d have time to do everything that was on my list of things to do. Of course, I’ll live on a farm in France or whatever. Of course, I’ll have time to direct a movie or whatever. And as you get older, you just realise that there’s certain doors that close over the course of a life that can never be opened again. And that’s kind of what the record’s about – choosing your path, your fate, and how it’s never quite what you imagined. And if you could change it, would you? And what would be the cost of being able to control your own fate? I don’t think it would come without some cosmic cost. And it’s kind of like a “Twilight Zone” episode or something. That’s the way I thought about this record, the jukebox where you can choose your fate."

Ben Schneider interview, Oct 2025