Chad Fischer returned to recording new songs and making new videos. July featured two new releases, the first Fischer's solo recordings since the video for "Our House" in February 2021.

The first video, "Captain Nick Brown Sailor", released in the beginning of the month is a homage to Chad's Uncle Nick Brown for his 90th birthday. The song and the video features musical contributions from whole lot of Nick Brown's relatives. "Captain Nick Brown Sailor" itself is reimagined "Sail on Sailor" by The Beach Boys.

The second video released a few days ago is a cover of The Jayhawks' "Blue" with several lyrics alterations regarding Fischer's recovery from Covid.

"Captain Nick Brown Sailor" and "Blue" are both available on Chad Fischer's Youtube channel with the latter also available on Instagram.

Lazlo Bane have released an updated version of the video for "Overkill" marking it's 25th anniversary.

The video directed by Mark Miremont and featuring Colin Hay was released 25 years ago and eventually made the top 10 of the year on MTV2.

"Overkill" was made available on the band's Facebook, as well as Chad Fischer's Instagram and Youtube.

The original lower quality version of the video is still available on Vimeo.

Closebye have announced a release date for Lucid News. The nine-track album will be released on April 22, 2022. The band opened pre-orders and posted full credits through bandcamp.

Tim Bright is credited as producer and engineer, while Kate Davis provides backing vocals on three songs.

The opening track from Lucid News, "Never Be Wrong", was also released and is available along with the pre-orders.