Lucid is the fourth studio album by French-Nigerian singer Aṣa, released on October 11, 2019, via Chapter Two Records and Wagram Music.

[9] On September 27, 2019, Aṣa released the third and final single, "My Dear", along with a live rendition video recorded at Studios Ferber in Paris.

[13] Pulse Nigeria's Motolani Alake described "The Beginning" as a "lo-fi, melodious post-break-up song that details the residual love still between the warring partners".

[16] Logan February said the song "falls short as a formidable statement, but works as a humanistic representation of the damage endured even by the strong".

[15] Conversely, Alake believes the album's track listing "fails to promote cohesion" and that its themes lack "sonic uniqueness".

[16] Writing for The Lagos Review, Logan February considers Lucid to be Aṣa's "most emotionally robust record yet" and said it "honors the highs and lows of love, and the journey of learning to be alone after the party ends".

[2] Culture Custodian's Michael Kolawole described the album as "a whiplash of emotion, a carefully crafted blow to the heart, an end-product of a wizened soul, and a letter of self-discovery".

[13] In a less enthusiastic review, Carl Terver of Praxis Magazine said Aṣa failed to outdo her last offering with the album and that her lyrics have "become weakened by a preference for popular songwriting".

[19] Music critic Dami Ajayi, whose review was published by the website This Is Lagos, said Lucid is her "ambitious attempt to collapse the ethos of all her previous albums into a formidable product to keep fans swooning for another half decade".