Lucid Express - Lucid Express (Cloudy Clear Vinyl)

Lucid Express - Lucid Express (Cloudy Clear Vinyl)For fans of Lush, Cocteau Twins, and Slowdive. Lucid Express is five young dreamers who create a stunning airy blend of shoegaze and indie pop amongst the skyscrapers, mountains, and packed alleyways of Hong Kong. The name itself a modest mission statement of the bands intent: lucid in the poetic sense of something bright and radiant. The group formed as teens in the winter of 2014 in the turbulent weeks just prior to the Umbrella Movement. Vocalist

it’s a conversation

to polyphonic synths and sound generators

patchwork songwriting and eerie

Interpol) evoke freedom and euphoric joy — maintaining the band’s signature minimalism

chillingly supporting the songs' bleak lyrics

and you often need new tools to break out of the monochromatic mold

K7 Records are re-issuing Tosca’s seminal album ‘No Hassle’ in an audiophile 3LP format

yet evading all of those categorisations

who is also one half of Beautiful Swimmers

as well as the wainscoted old-growth oak joisted parlor of the Lethe Lounge in upper Manhattan

‘Wish on the Bone’ is wide-eyed and waiting

creating potent sounds from a minimal palette of drums/bass/guitar and lacing their songs with winsome one-liners and societal commentary