-=- SHGZ -=- * Shoegaze * Indie * Post-Rock * Grunge * Dream Pop * Psych-Rock * Ethereal * ARTIST..: Lacing ALBUM...: Bummer GENRE...: Indie STYLE...: Shoegaze YEAR....: 2017 LABEL...: Saw Her Ghost ENCODER.: LAME 3.98.4 -V0 BITRATE.: 250 kbps avg QUALITY.: 44.1kHz / Joint Stereo SOURCE..: CD TRACKS..: 7 SIZE....: 69.34 MB URL..: http://www.facebook.com/lacingband/ - TRACKLIST 1 Wound 4:05 2 Summer 4:07 3 Shoulder 4:33 4 Drain 7:11 5 Starless 7:54 6 _ 5:26 7 Milk 5:21 Total Playtime: 38:37 The taste at work behind Michigan imprint Saw Her Ghost Records is not a trifling thing, and it's not every day the label puts out anything at all, so when I saw word that it had newly put its stamp on Bummer, the debut album from Tennessee heavygaze rockers Lacing, despite not being familiar with the band I had a pretty good feeling they'd be worth looking up. Sure enough, the record ù which is also available as a name-your-price download from Lacing's Bandcamp page, linked and streaming in full below ù offers a deeply weighted and nuanced take on weighted melancholic spaciousness, ranging from the crush of "Starless" to the minimal-seeming ambience of opener "Wound." Saw Her Ghost Records is thrilled to welcome Rocky Top shoegaze brooders, Lacing. Their album Bummer is a sweeping, swirling series of waves- complete with dark hooks and trembling discordance. Ethereal, floating vocals compliment icy clean guitar lines that shift to fuzzy distortion. Their path ultimately descends into riffs the size of gritty, mammoth castle walls. At once, delicate, and in due time after, a unique heaviness shrouds all that was built before it. Blue, moody, uneasy, yet simultaneously comforting and redemptive- Let Bummer transport you to another emotional dimension, or it may just burrow down and bury you where you lie. Alan McGee would be flummoxed to learn that LACING, a shoegaze band from Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, issued their debut album in 2017, not 1990. Like many of the bands from the original 90s scene, the band's full length debut, Bummer, comes on the heels of a well received EP (their Honey Glow tape). It isn't just more of the same though. Bummer is at times far noisier as evidenced by the end of the epic "Starless" which takes up a majority of the album's second side with a healthy dose of fuzz blasted riffing. Elsewhere, tracks such as "Summer" and "Shoulder" play with the dynamics of Pixies while calling to mind several branches of the shoegaze family tree with nods to Slowdive, Hum, The Jesus & Mary Chain (circa Psychocandy) and occasionally even Dinosaur Jr. * Interview: http://whenthesunhitsblog.blogspot.com/2017/09/interview-lacing.html -=- SHGZ -=- P.S. ** Thanks *** *** BCC FNT IPC SSR *** *** For Knowing Where The Music Is At *** *** Props to CaHeSo, awesome Asian Indie/Shoegaze *** *** And to FANG/HOUND for supporting all the Indie lovers out there *** --===-- ********************* * NuHS we miss you! * *********************