ilena lucida

ilena lucida, real name lucy isabela valdez (born june 17, 2011), is a multi-genre, experimental music artist based in austin, texas.

while the genres vary intently from shoegaze to idm to ambient, downtempo to dnb to slushwave, and more, lucy's music is overarchingly about memory, nostalgia, longing, alienation, beauty, vastness, ambiguity, identity, melancholy itself, and occasional hope.

to put it fully; her music is shaped by a wide set of emotions and concepts, which are liminal spaces, open and beautiful landscapes, desolate and barren post-apocalyptic worlds, dystopia, the frutiger aero era and the hypnagogic feeling of the 2000s internet, nostalgia for versions of the world she was never quite there for, and certain mental struggles, etcetera.