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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