Yes, this is already the second project in the last weeks on my blog and I'm very happy about it as Lucid Express came back with another oneiric album. Following the 2021 self-titled debut, the artists who refer to themselves simply as "five dreamers", created a new set of immersive, densely noisy compositions for us to day dream to.
Lucid Express' shoegaze brings all of the sweet classic vibes of the noisy pop music. The fuzzing guitar layers making the audience drown in the sound; the sweet and melodic vocals (Setback!), often catchingly vocalizing (such a fun in Something Blue!); the slightly melancholic lyrics. I won't enlist all of the 90s bands the new album reminds me of because everyone can imagine this, I'll only say that Instant Comfort if made back then would most certainly get included into the shoegaze classics.
Already present on the HK's music scene for over a decade, Lucid Express maintain the atmosphere of late night (or early morning) rehearsals that shaped their works at the beginning, which results in relaxed-paced, fuzzy (and in some places REALLY fuzzy, check out Aster) that ultimately results in the title song that closes the album and that, on the fuzziness scale, is located far towards the My Bloody Valentine end.
Instant Comfort costs 9 USD.
Check: Instant Comfort
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: classic shoegaze
Label: Kanine Records
