Track of the week: Lucid Express ‘Promise Me’

Picture credit – Aileen Lam

This week tune of choice is one of the great occasions when you discover a piece of music by accident and pure chance – when the algorithm pints you in the direction of something worthy of your attention.

This track and the album it is taken from will recall – rekindle and transport the grey matter back to the beginning of the foot of the nineties and the emergence of the shimmering hazy dreampop and the shoegaze equivalent of the wall of sound that graced our record collections. Think Chapterhouse, Slowdive,early Lush, echoes of Ride and Pale saints and the god heads of it all My Bloody Valentine.

   Lucid Express formed as teens in 2014 in Hong Kong. Taken from their bio

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 is a modest mission statement of the band’s intent: lucid in the poetic sense of something bright and radiant.

Listening to their blissful, dreamy compositions, it may come as no surprise that these songs carry the mood of their times of inception. With all members of the band working late-night shifts, this led to a rehearsal and recording schedule that found the band playing between midnight and 4am and then crashing together on the studio floor before returning to work early in the AM.

This single “Promise Me” is taken from the bands lates album “Instant Comfort” out now on the KANINE Record label / links available via the band’s socials.

The band have recently undertaken an extensive tour of the USA and Canade with no European dates slated at the present… Stay tuned for thus one!