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Dead Young Club Vol 1 - the debut release for The Lucid Dream with Dead Young Records, available on limited edition 400 only 10" vinyl and download, featuring 'I Got The Devil'. The 10" is also split with fellow Dead Young Records acts The Cubical, A Love Supreme and Yucatan. Each vinyl is personalised and comes with poster bag and polaroids compiled by the bands.
Release date - 22 September 2008.
The Lucid Dream were formed in Carlisle, Cumbria, in January 2008, fusing a love of
drones and psychedelic sounds, combined with the ability to condense this into the perfect pop song.
The track 'I Got The Devil' was released on the split Dead Young Records 10" single 'Dead Young Club' in September 2008 to stellar reviews, suggesting comparisons to The Jesus and Mary Chain, Spacemen 3 and Suicide to name a few, gaining worldwide airplay and press along the way. These comparisons where reaffirmed and broadened after 'Love In My Veins' appeared on the Psyilocybin Sounds release 'Open Your Mind' in January 2009, alongside The Brian Jonestown Massacre & The Three 4 Tens, amongst others.
The band have gained praise from the likes of Steve Lamacq, who selected 'In Your Eyes' as his listeners tip of the week on his Radio 2 show in June 2009, as well as further support from Tom Robinson on BBC 6 Music ('Love In My Veins', 'Jesus Say My Prayers’).
Recent support slots with Spectrum (featuring Sonic Boom, founder member of Spacemen 3), as well as to The Aliens have gone to enhance the bands growing live reputation. The Lucid Dream played a rapturously received set at Kendal Calling festival in July 2009.
The Lucid Dream retreated to an abandoned 15th Century Mill at Erbistock, North Wales in Spring 09, to record their debut EP. Using the natural reverb of the age old stone structure, along with producer Ross Halden, the band crafted a psychedelic, drone laden masterpiece, mastered in LA by Dave Cooley (Black Angels/Serge Gainsbourg/Axelrod).Deeplines were also onsite to capture the process in the short film, set to ‘I Got The Devil’, which is included on the EP. The record is set for an exclusive, limited physical release & DL in early 2010. This will be accompanied by a European tour.
'jangly psychedelia. Listeners tip of the week'
Steve Lamacq, DJ
'The Lucid Dream stand out as bright as a lighthouse beam. The vibrations coming off this band are interstellar, I truly see this band leading the sonic underground in the near future.
Their wall-of-noise take on psychedelia, with added sitar, makes comparisons with Ride, Verve, Spacemen 3, My Bloody Valentine, Brian Jonestown Massacre and other one-chord wonders apt. Its drone rock wiith the colour spectrum turned up to the 'blinding' setting.
Having toured with Sonic Boom recently you get the sense that the baton was being silently passed on. All that pass their way must shimmer in the neon sunshine they create'.
Shindig! Magazine
'I’m going to come right out and say that The Lucid Dream are the most exciting band we’ve got on these two discs. By exciting I don’t just mean the music, but also the potential impact that they might have on the future of music. A few months ago I was lucky enough to hear a handful of songs from this Carlisle psych-outfit that blew me away, where dirty Iggy-style fucked up rock & roll walked hand in hand with shoegaze brilliance such as we’ve got here with “The Twilight End”. It’s been a long time since I heard anything as immense and atmospheric as the early Verve singles - but I’ll stick my neck out and suggest that this even surpasses that. For a few years people have been talking about the UK psych-scene breaking into the mainstream, and finally perhaps here is a band who have got all the credentials (and the songs) to tip it over the edge.'
www.daydreamgeneration.com
'Fans of The Lucid Dream are also found in record companies and at the BBC. This Carlisle band formed only in January. They have played just three gigs. And they have already earned a recording contract and airplay on national radio.
There’s no secret to this success. It’s the tunes, big beasts that resonate with the ghosts of their influences while always coming back to Lucid Dreamland.
I Got The Devil swaggers like Jesus and Mary Chain. The Verve would be proud to have spawned The Twilight End. Unearthly delights, played on vintage 60s’ and 70s’ instruments but easily substantial enough to defy any suspicion of pastiche.'
News and Star
'these shade wearing space cadets are already being compared to the likes of Suicide and the Spacemen 3 and who are we to argue.
Head tripping fuzz laden hazes are the order of the day here for this uber cool 60’s throwback of shimmying lazy eyed rock ’n’ roll, a melodic myriad of hypnosis inducing hallucinogenic glazes, repetitive drone collages a la Sonic Boom and prime sliced struts - tell me now what is there not to love?'
LosingToday.com review of 'Dead Young Club'
'forget about Dragon’s Den rejects Glasvegas evoking a similar spirit to Jesus and Mary Chain. This bunch, from Carlisle (can you think of any other acts from that neck of the woods? I can’t) have more than a touch of the early JAMC about them. Worth getting.'
www.soundsxp.com review of 'Dead Young Club'
'a JAMC/Ravonettes-type, taking the former's high-speed feedbackfuzz guitar but pairing it with an early-Ravonettes lightness and sense of fun which shines through the whole thing. Add basic handclappish drumbeats, spaced-out vocals with that sense of being stretched out and singing from across an epic soundscape, a descending effects-pedal bridge section and some attack-keyboards at the end, and you generally have a fantastic space-pop-fuzz number which mixes attitude with a pleasing lightness of touch. Definitely one I'll be investigating further'.
www.repeatfanzine.com review of 'Dead Young Club'
'This will blow your mind'
Psychedelic Velveeta!
'sounding more like they’ve stepped into a time machine in the 1960s and somehow ended up in 2008. a sparkling 5 minutes of distortion and noise proving the Lucid Dream to be something to look out for.'
Neon Buzz Magazine
'a year since we first caught The Lucid Dream's tentative early steps at Night & Day; hailing from Carlisle and barely six gigs old there was already something about them that said this band is special - and how far they have come since then. Supports with Spectrum must have had Sonic Boom wondering if he was on a particularly intense out-of-body flashback, because close your eyes and this could indeed be that early Spacemen gig. Not to say there's any plagiarism; more a feeling that they have come from the same headspace, growing up in a forgotten town with a pile of 13th Floor Elevators and Velvet Underground records and discovering the euphoria that comes from playing one chord for longer than conventional wisdom would recommend.'
Cath Aubergine, Manchester Music
Hey thanks! One of my projectors melted the lens and I had to take it down, so it could have been better, but it was my debut at Acid Gallery too, so it'll get better every time...
Glad you all had fun, we thought you rocked and I for one will gladly come and see you play again next time you're in town. Come back soon!
The TGM Awards 2009 is coming! The nominations have been announced for the sixth annual awards and we can confirm that the Lucid Dream have 3 nominations, for:
* Best North Cumbria Act * Best Gig (Mighty Boof/Kendal Calling @ Whitehaven - May 09) * Best Song ("Hits Me Like I'm Stoned")
The poll opens on Friday 20th November 2009 and will close on Friday 18th December 2009.
I love becoming obsessed with singles; all I did yesterday was listen to the Ronettes 'Walking in the Rain', whereas today the only thing I did of note was listen to 'I Got The Devil' a couple of dozen times. Thanks!
Is that Dandelion radio session still up for download?
I'm really looking forward to the Holy are You gig, see yer there!
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