Carlisle band The Lucid Dream split up in 2023. Their last album, The Deep End, was a 2020s psyche gem, with drum machines, samplers and guitars, hip hop influences as well as experimental Balearica. On the closing song, the closest thing on The Deep End to a conventional guitar band song, they sound like early Verve, windswept and blasted and washed up on a Cumbrian beach. Nine minutes of wonder for Monday morning on 1st December.
This vinyl only single, SX1000, from 2018 is an absolute joy, the perfect collision of guitar band dynamics with acid house electronics- 808s, live bass, sirens- and some wonderful footage of late 80s/ early 90s raves. Rave on.