Lacing – Never (2022)

Lacing come 35 years too late, but then again their take on shoegaze-souvlaki sounds hasn’t gone out of style. And this is a band that doesn’t even pretend to be hot. With »Never,« the US group has released a tape on Candlepin that combines everything—insurmountable walls of guitars with sweat that is dripping from the ceiling and voices that no one understands because the reverb swallowed them whole. And enough riffs to make you feel like a 16-year-old again, of course. Christoph Benkeser