ANAHEIM, Calif. — As the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter Jake Smith, who goes by the moniker The White Buffalo, began toying with ideas for his eighth studio album, he decided to challenge himself by doing something sonically and lyrically different.
When he Googled his band, he saw that they’d been essentially pigeonholed into the country genre, which he said he could understand, but it didn’t feel entirely accurate.
“That would blow my mind,” he said during a recent phone interview while on the road in support of the new concept album, “Year of the Dark Horse,” which was released Nov. 11.
