Scottish 70s psych rockers Lucid Sins share debut single off new album »Dancing In The Dark« on Totem Cat Records; UK shows announced!
Glasgow, Scotland based 70s psych rock duo Lucid Sins share the first single »Jack Of Diamonds« taken from their new full-length album, »Dancing In The Dark«, set to release on October 27th, 2023 via Totem Cat Records.
Tracklist:
01. Jack Of Diamonds
02. The Dance
03. Take Me With You
04. From The Bough
05. Sanctuary Stone
06. A Call In The Dark
07. The Drifter
08. Heavy Toll
09. The Raven’s Eye
10. Catch The Wild
Courtesy of Purple Sage PR:
Scotland’s 70s occult rock goldsmiths Lucid Sins return with their third full-length »Dancing In The Dark« this October 27th on Totem Cat Records with a first single premiering exclusively on It’s Psychedelic Baby Magazine. The band also just announced a string of UK fall dates including shows with Nebula and Hey Colossus.
From the moment Glasgow’s own 70s rock masters Lucid Sins catch your ear, you know you are in for a long-haul adventure: driven by their own wizardry and prodigious mastery of all instruments, the duo of Ruaraidh Sanachan and Andreas Johnsson bewitches you from the get-go. While their 2021 sophomore album »Cursed« presented an intoxicating and unwaveringly prog-oriented brew of proto-rock that sat firmly between Blue Öyster Cult and The Doors, their third album flips a brand new page of their sonic grimoire.
A collaborative effort of interconnected souls, »Dancing In The Dark« summons the talents of various guest musicians to form a fluid and melody-driven story where occult rock meets folk and proto-doom in a hypnotic swirl of riffs and keys carried by Jonsson’s compelling poetry. Firmly rooted in the 60s and 70s sound, Lucid Sins manages to uplift spirits while dragging you once again in the occult, meeting the boundary-free creativity of their contemporaries Witchcraft, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats to the more seamless lightheartedness of Fairport Convention.
Watch Lucid Sins new video »Jack Of Diamonds«!
The story goes as follows… You stumble through the forest. Alone and far from home. All paths have returned you to this place. Lost in a world of green. Hidden in the dark. As the light fades you glimpse flickering flame and catch the scent of smoke. In a tiny clearing, shadows cast by a dying fire take human-esque forms. Leaning in for warmth, they share ten tales of hope and betrayal, magic and madness, love and death. Whispered words mingle with distant memories, and as the fire grows higher, your sense of self is scorched and burned. One by one now, the figures begin to dance and spin as occult psychedelic sounds drift through the trees. Caught in the maelstrom, suspended high in a swirling mesh of leaves and perception, you release your grip on space and time… On the forest floor, stirred by dawn, you try to make sense of the mist within your mind. To recall where you have been. To know who you once were. Around a glowing fire, deep in the woods, Lucid Sins are »Dancing In The Dark«… Will you dance with them?
Lucid Sins on tour:
October 14th – Aberdeen, The Rusty Nail
October 15th – Glasgow, Ivory Blacks (w/ Nebula)
October 18th – Leeds, Fox and Newt
October 19th – London, Helgi’s
October 20th – Sheffield, Lughole (w/ Heavy Sentence, Parish)
October 21st – Newcastle, Lubber Fiend (w/ Hey Colossus)
Lucid Sins »Dancing In The Dark« out October 27th on Totem Cat Records
Photo by Alec Cheer
Lucid Sins is Ruaraidh Sanachan and Andreas Johnsson, the heads who brought an explosive freeform psychedelia to Glasgow’s live scene through their first band Moon Unit. With their Totem Cat Records debut »Occultation« (2015) — not to mention their stellar cover of Medusa’s »Black Wizard« – the Scottish duo drew attention to their darkness-tinged brand of 70s psych and classic rock, making a storming entrance among their proto-metal peers Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Witchcraft or Dead Meadow. »Occultation« draped itself in a stunning Alasdair Gray sleeve, which set the tone for their occult-driven ventures.
In 2021, Lucid Sins returned to the scene forefront with their sophomore full-length »Cursed!« (Totem Cat Records), a must-have piece of 70s progressive rock fueled by an intoxicating dose of keys and violins, liquid-fingered riffage and vocals harking back to the likes of Wishbone Ash, Blue Öyster Cult or The Doors in their more entrancing meanderings. Dubbed as “the sort of psychedelic trip that only the greatest bands can really pull off and draw you into” by Two Guys Metal Reviews and “a warm, lofty and brilliant album” by the revered Doom Charts, it was adorned by a surrealistic artwork from Britain’s early 20th-century illustrator Alan Odle.
Lucid Sins is:
Andreas Jonsson – Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Organ, Synthesizer
Ruaraidh Sanachan – Drums, Bass, Percussion, Organ, Mellotron, Recorder, Backing Vocals
Album guests: Espen Andersen, Stuart Coleman, Hanna Tuulikki, Alex Ward
Cover art by David V. D’Andrea
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well