Breaking the Mold: Lucid Letters Drops 90’s-Inspired Hip-Hop Single “Briefcase”

September 16, 2025

Breaking the Mold: Lucid Letters Drops 90’s-Inspired Hip-Hop Single “Briefcase”

Lucid Letters doesn’t exactly release music like a product; she poses questions burning with sincerity. What’s something that isn't illegal but feels like it should be? For her, the answer is clear: a middle-aged white woman from the north of England crafting 90’s-inspired hip hop. That playful, wacky inner prism is the pulse of the ‘Briefcase’ which is the title track of her theme album CHAOS ERA. It’s a song that acknowledges the complete lack of logic in what she is doing artistically, but goes on to celebrate it with unrestrained glee, challenging the audience to define her success and determine who has the authority to decide that.

In the Fylde Coast of Lancashire, the journey of Lucid Letters is as DIY as it could possibly get and it started when she was a teenager. The self taught 18 year old used her older brothers desktop computer to record her songs and a dysfunctional headset microphone. Now 20 years after, she is still working in her Tiny Studio which is in Fleetwood. There she is known for the ability to change small rooms into fully functioning harmonious sound environments. Among her numerous idols you can find the eccentric Bjork and Imogen Heap as well as the groundbreaking Japanese pop singer Utada Hikaru, but her spirit is distinctly her own: independent, self-taught and boundaryless.

"Briefcase" earns her place at the rear of CHAOS ERA, a concept album weaving through Lucid's original song sketches, revised as sophisticated but incomplete jabs. She appears here an image of herself both real and imagined—a meta-self seeking to shake off the weight of outside criticism but wrestling with the specter of self-consciousness. The song acknowledges that tension: bursts of confidence conflicting with a sarcastic awareness that she does not "fit" the hip hop stereotype. And that is its strength—it is not about fitting, it is about cutting into space where there was none offered.

Released 5th September, 2025, "Briefcase" hints at an album which charts mayhem not as devastation in itself, but as a path towards re-growth. It's acerbic, sheepish, and knowing—a rap admission of guilt which pays its dues to a culture it did not come from, even as it joins the battle. And so, doing so, Lucid Letters flips the very question by which she began on its head original: art does not require permission. Art walks into rooms carrying its own bag, ready to unpack the clutter inside.