As the sun sets on the opener of Lord Huron’s latest album, Vide Noir , singer-songwriter Ben Schneider’s voice is awash with distant harps and strings, singing, “I don’t know who I am; I don’t know where I am.” The tune’s called “Lost in Time and Space,” and it certainly sets the tone of this, Lord Huron’s third album. On “Ancient Names, Pt. 1,” Schneider, “Came to have my fortune told—Can’t imagine what she saw while gazing in her crystal ball.” Sense a theme here? On Vide Noir , Schneider is lost, mystified and dazed—and it makes for his band’s trippiest and most exciting music yet. Lord Huron graduates from the somber folk of 2012’s debut Lonesome Dreams and Strange Tails in 2015, now creating churning, mesmerizing and sometimes downright frantic rock-and-roll. Schneider may have lost his soul, but he found his groove. The gorgeous, acoustic tones of Lord Huron haven’t vanished completely—“Back from the Edge” is sweeping, sing-along folk perfected—but, here, they’re counterbalanced by darker, slithering basslines and foreboding walls of stacked vocals. The creepy title track builds on the best dirty groove The Black Keys never wrote, but then devolves into Schneider asking, “Where do you go when it’s all in your head?” into a black void. It’s not a place you’d want to be, per se, but it makes for deliciously voyeuristic listening. Schneider’s existential searching seems to have opened a musical window into another dimension. We hope he finds his way back—but for his music’s sake, he’s better off lost.