{"id":19737,"date":"2026-05-01T07:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19737"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T12:28:42","slug":"chainlacing-shoegaze-duo-drop-simulacra-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19737","title":{"rendered":"Chainlacing shoegaze duo drop \u201cSimulacra\u201d video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chainlacing-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19738\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.3316037980594615;width:532px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chainlacing-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chainlacing-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chainlacing-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Chainlacing.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Shoegaze-inflected lo-fi ambient duo\u00a0<strong>Chainlacing\u00a0<\/strong>will release their debut album, \u201c<em><strong>Messuage<\/strong><\/em>\u201d, on 19 June 2026 via specialist dark music label\u00a0<strong>These Hands Melt<\/strong>\u00a0and is available for pre-order now. To accompany the announcement, the band has unveiled a video for the single \u201c<em><strong>Simulacra<\/strong><\/em>\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band said about \u201cSimulacra\u201d: &#8220;<em>Inspired by the lush rural landscapes of northern New England. A lyrical and textural examination of the fabric of memory and our innate need to have a meaningful connection to our collective past.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMessuage\u201d was composed and performed by founding members Lauren Crosser and Rick Martel. Chainlacing was started in New Hampshire, where Lauren would travel from Boston to record guitar ideas in Rick\u2019s home studio. They gravitate toward lo-fi ambient guitar and synthesisers, melodic drones, reverb, and gloom-like shoegaze, goth, or industrial recorded on 4-tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently joined by Joe Streeter of Have a Nice Life, Nick Watter of Slow Quit, and Dan Hartel of Still Life Sounds, Chainlacing has developed an immersive live sound with the heaviness of funereal doom, the sonic atmosphere of shoegaze, and the vulnerability of dream pop and folk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They&#8217;ve released several singles, including collaborations with Heaven Process (former member of The Chameleons), Illudium (Prophecy Productions), Ship Burial and GLASSEYEZ. Their most recent physical release, \u201cAttersee\u201d EP, is available on tape through Interluxe Distribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMessuage\u201d will be available digitally, on CD with a 3-panel panoramic digisleeve limited to 200 copies, and an LP on trans-glass vinyl limited 150 copies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Chainlacing - Simulacra [Official music video]\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fhW7LEgLn7o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lauren and Rick also participate in other Massachusetts-area bands. Lauren drums in a heavy shoegaze band called Slow Quit, based in Boston, and Rick plays guitar in Lowell grunge band Tysk Tysk Task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Chainlacing\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/artist\/7glF1FgEEhx6dhYEGndUty?si=l0lE9kqfQA-lE353pwzkHA&amp;nd=1&amp;dlsi=f7adf3ea696648c4&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoegaze-inflected lo-fi ambient duo\u00a0Chainlacing\u00a0will release their debut album, \u201cMessuage\u201d, on 19 June 2026 via specialist dark music label\u00a0These Hands Melt\u00a0and is available for pre-order now. To accompany the announcement, the band has unveiled a video for the single \u201cSimulacra\u201d.\u00a0 The band said about \u201cSimulacra\u201d: &#8220;Inspired by the lush rural landscapes of northern New England. A&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=19737\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chainlacing shoegaze duo drop \u201cSimulacra\u201d video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19739,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19737\/revisions\/19739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}