"The second album Without from the Chattanooga quartet Lacing is its most compelling effort yet, showing artistic growth that reveals rich, complex sounds and diverse strategies that make it impossible to pigeonhole as simply a shoegaze band. Following an upward trajectory, its heavy moments are heavier, its swirling moments are wilder and it packs more of an emotional wallop than ever, with vocalist/guitarist Joseph Davenport's intensely personal lyrics dealing with his turbulent childhood and the terror of a having a physically abusive father. Stitched together with several hallucinatory interlude tracks, including the final infinite locked-groove track on the vinyl edition, Without is a tour de force that harnesses the urgency of punk rock (“Regret”), the dramatic swells of post-rock (“Violet”) and the exhilarating pull of shoegaze (“Prague”) while transcending genre and going into uncharted territories." ~Ernie Paik, The Pulse