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 — which is also available as a name-your-price download from Lacing‘s Bandcamp page, linked and streaming in full below — 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.”

The download comes with an exclusive remix, so if you’ve got a couple minutes to spare, and ears for something new, adventure awaits.

Have at it:

Lacing – Bummer

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.

TRACK LIST:
1. Wound (4:06)
2. Summer (4:07)
3. Shoulder (4:34)
4. Drain (7:12)
5. Starless (7:55)
6. _ (5:26)
7. Milk (5:22)

Recorded & Mixed in February of 2017
by Scott Minor with Carey Balch
Wild Chorus in Knoxville, TN
Mastered By Carey Balch

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.

LACING is:
Joe Davenport: Guitar, Vocals
Jerry Reed: Drums
Robert Parker: Guitar
Joseph J Micolo III: Bass

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Lacing, Bummer (2017)