Sunday, April 13 Lucid Express / Letting Up Despite Great Faults (co-headline) Aluminum 7 pm doors $18 adv / $20 doors all ages 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 a modest mission statement of the band's intent: lucid in the poetic sense of something bright and radiant. The group formed as teens in the winter of 2014 in the turbulent weeks just prior to the Umbrella Movement. Listening to their blissful, dreamy compositions, it may come as no surprise that these songs carry the mood of their times of inception. NME praised the "shimmering guitars and whirring synthesizers," while Drowned in Sound raved about the group's “ethereal grace” and Time Out lauded their "dreamy live performances." https://www.instagram.com/lucid_express/ Letting Up Despite Great Faults is an American indie dreampop band from Los Angeles, CA and Austin, TX. Making their mark with their acclaimed debut album (self-titled 2009) and Untogether (2012), they carved out a small corner of the dreampop world with their take on electronic shoegaze and indiepop jangle. After taking a hiatus which songwriter Mike Lee hails as their time to "become real adults," they came back with IV (2022) and a new album Reveries (2024) that pushes forward and further like never before, exploring new sounds and structure with a mature patience and confidence emblematic of "real adults." https://www.instagram.com/lettingup/ The relatively short life of San Francisco’s Aluminum has so far yielded a single (Spinning Backwards, 2020) and an EP (Windowpane, 2022), but their debut LP, Fully Beat (2024), overflows with tenured confidence and a singular style that deftly comprises shoegaze, big beat, and jangle pop. With influences ranging from Orbital, to Wipers, to The Avalanches and Sly and the Family Stone, theirs is a multifaceted take on established forms, fed through fuzz and led by honeyed, dual vocal harmonies from Bay Area post-punk veterans Marc Leyda (of Wild Moth) and Ryann Gonsalves (of Torrey). https://www.instagram.com/aluminumsf/