New Music Initiative 074: Lacing
Feb. 28th, 2020 04:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bedsitter23Even as I turn into an old fuddy duddy, I still occasionally find new music.
Lacing is a four-piece from the perhaps unlikely launching place of Chattanooga, TN with a 2019 album and a 2017 EP to their name.
Shoegaze is a term that pops up a lot, perhaps now, more than it did in it's alleged 90s heyday. I don't consider myself a huge fan of the genre, but I guess I really am.
I say this, because I am not a huge fan of the bands I associate with the genre (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Curve, and others). Not that I don't like them, but if I sat down and wrote my favorite 50 or even 100 bands, they would not make the cut.
I say I am in fact probably a shoegaze fan, though, having lived through it, and picking up on some of the bands who have since grown legendary in the ensuing decades, who often were ignore at the time. Favorites of mine in this category would be Chapterhouse, Kitchens of Distinction and the Telescopes, as well as some of the big names- Lush, Galaxie 500, Ride and Spiritualized.
Of course, though it's awesome that bands like Starflyer 59, Adorable, and the Drop 19s are getting their due, does Shoegaze (the word) even resemble Shoegaze (the 90s genre)? We have seen a plethora of relaunches and variations- nu-gaze, sh*tgaze, and blackgaze (a hybrid of black metal and shoegaze). I would have considered the Cocteau Twins "the" shoegaze band. Nowadays, are they even considered shoegaze? Does "shoegaze" just mean you sound like the Jesus and Mary Chain? Should we more accurately call it the "Bastard Sons of J Mascis".
Which brings us back to if it even matters. I just decide I like it or don't, and Lacing is the kind of band that has a sound I like. Shoegaze indeed, especially on the heavy side of that sound. At times, it has a punk influence (in that 90s vein of Nirvana/Pixies/Dinosaur Jr), at others, more towards atmospheric noise (like a heavier Hum), and you probably have to reference the J&M Chain in there somewhere,too. They certainly have a depth of sound. Check them out!
Lacing is a four-piece from the perhaps unlikely launching place of Chattanooga, TN with a 2019 album and a 2017 EP to their name.
Shoegaze is a term that pops up a lot, perhaps now, more than it did in it's alleged 90s heyday. I don't consider myself a huge fan of the genre, but I guess I really am.
I say this, because I am not a huge fan of the bands I associate with the genre (My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Curve, and others). Not that I don't like them, but if I sat down and wrote my favorite 50 or even 100 bands, they would not make the cut.
I say I am in fact probably a shoegaze fan, though, having lived through it, and picking up on some of the bands who have since grown legendary in the ensuing decades, who often were ignore at the time. Favorites of mine in this category would be Chapterhouse, Kitchens of Distinction and the Telescopes, as well as some of the big names- Lush, Galaxie 500, Ride and Spiritualized.
Of course, though it's awesome that bands like Starflyer 59, Adorable, and the Drop 19s are getting their due, does Shoegaze (the word) even resemble Shoegaze (the 90s genre)? We have seen a plethora of relaunches and variations- nu-gaze, sh*tgaze, and blackgaze (a hybrid of black metal and shoegaze). I would have considered the Cocteau Twins "the" shoegaze band. Nowadays, are they even considered shoegaze? Does "shoegaze" just mean you sound like the Jesus and Mary Chain? Should we more accurately call it the "Bastard Sons of J Mascis".
Which brings us back to if it even matters. I just decide I like it or don't, and Lacing is the kind of band that has a sound I like. Shoegaze indeed, especially on the heavy side of that sound. At times, it has a punk influence (in that 90s vein of Nirvana/Pixies/Dinosaur Jr), at others, more towards atmospheric noise (like a heavier Hum), and you probably have to reference the J&M Chain in there somewhere,too. They certainly have a depth of sound. Check them out!
