New Video: Lucid Express Shares Dreamy and Yearning “Promise Me”

Hong Kong-based shoegazers and JOVM mainstays Lucid Express just released their long-awaited and highly anticipated sophomore album Instant Comfort today through Kanine Records. 

Mixed by Kurt Feldman during marathon overnight, transpacific sessions on Discord, Instant Comfort reportedly captures the unsettling stillness of the nighttime hours. The album’s material sonically sees the Hong Kong-based JOVM mainstays pairing ethereal melodies with towering walls of jangling guitars and hazy, swirling feedback while being more clear-eyed, complex and layered than anything they’ve released to date. 

The album includes the previously released “Something Blue,” and “Faux Sweetness,“as well as the album’s latest single “Promise Me.” Featuring towering layers of shimmering and churning guitars, thundering hi-hat driven drumming serving as a lush and eerily uneasy bed for Kim Ho’s ethereal and yearning vocal.

Directed and filmed by fellow Hong Kong native Neo Yeung, the accompanying video is a mix of live performance-styled footage and candid footage shot over the course of a day-long shoot.

Now, as you may know, since the release of 2021’s self-titled full-length debut, the band has amassed praise from fans and critics across the globe, toured internationally and made a run of the international festival circuit with stops at Slide Away and LEVITATION. They will return to North America in March for a sting of Stateside dates, including a return to play New Colossus Festival, SXSW and Wavelength. 

As always, tour dates are blow.

Lucid Express on Tour (tickets)
3/3: Kingston, NY – Tubby’s
3/4: Boston, MA – O’Brien’s Pub
3/5: New York, NY – Arlene’s Grocery (New Colossus Festival, Kanine party)
3/6: Philadelphia, PA – Nikki Lopez
3/7: New York, NY – Arlene’s Grocery (New Colossus Festival, shoegaze party)
3/8: Washington, DC – Pie Shop
3/10: Durham, NC – Rubies on Five Points
3/11: Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn
3/14-3/16: Austin, TX – SXSW
3/18: Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village
3/20: Toronto, ON – Wavelength Festival
3/22: Montreal, QC – Cabaret Le Foufs

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