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SHEER MAG – Philly’s Garage Rockers Deliver Familiar Sounding New Album With ‘PLAYING FAVORITES’

Posted on March 4, 2024 by JL

New longplayers

4 March 2024

Philly‘s garage indie rockers SHEER MAG fronted by spicy voice
Tina Halladay have their 3th LP, baptized PLAYING FAVORITES
out now.

Press info:”Playing Favorites is Sheer Mag’s third full-length and first with Third Man Records, the band capitalize on a decade’s worth of devotion to their own collective spirit, a spirit refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-than-life glamour of concert halls—emerging with a dense work of gripping emotions, massive hooks, and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems. This is the record the Philadelphian rock and roll four-piece has always been destined to make.”

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UNCUT magazine: “At times Sheer Mag are miraculous pop hustlers, still pulling off the most absurd trick shots on the scuffed three yards of stained green baize. Which isn’t to say that they’re not above a little experiment.”

TUTV: SM rock (Playing Favorites / Eat It And Beat / Paper Time / I Gotta Go), groove (All Lined Up / Moonstruck / Golden Hour / Tea On The Kettle) and go smooth here and there. From breakneck garage agitation to 60s pop-inspired firecrackers and a couple of soft ones in between, with Tina Halladay‘s sinewy voice omnipresent. All together, a solid rock record, but a bit too much Sheer Mag by numbers.

Key Singles: Eat It And Beat It / All Lined Up

– EAT IT AND BEAT IT –

– ALL LINED UP –

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SHEER MAG – Philly’s Pop-Punk Dropouts Return With Infectious Single ‘ALL LINED UP’

Posted on August 4, 2023 by JL

Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

4 Augustus 2023

(Press)

Philly‘s punk-pop-rock droputs SHEER MAG fronted
by sassy voice Tina Halladay are back in town.

After hitting the scene back in 2014 they shook the indie world with
two notable LPs. Need To Feel For You (2017) and A Distant Call.

It’s one of those bands you’re waiting for to return.

Which they do now with new vintage SM single ALL LINED UP.

“The genesis of ‘All Lined Up’ stems from late nights at the bar playing pool. Last call
has long come and gone, the gate is down, the ashtrays are out and your friend behind
the bar is giving it all away. Despite the revelry, there’s a looming sense of dread — a fear
that no matter how far ahead you get, all it takes is one bad shot to lose the game.”

Sheer Mag do what they do best again, embedding infectious pop melodies into
a guitar-riff groove while the drum takes care of the foot-stompin’ beat. And of
course there’s Tina Halladay reaching for the roof now and then with her vivid vox,
backed by the guys chanting forth and back. Let’s hope All Lined Up is the harbinger
for album number 3.

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