Sheer Mag: Playing Favorites (Vinyl LP)
Sheer Mag have laboured to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flourishes of a “connoisseur’s band” and the ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwriting - yet displaying no strict loyalty to either camp - their sound, while oft-referenced, is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone.
On Playing Favorites, 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 Philadelphia rock and roll four-piece has always been destined to make.
Black vinyl version.
- Playing Favorites
- Eat It and Beat It
- All Lined Up
- Don't Come Lookin'
- I Gotta Go
- Moonstruck
- Mechanical Garden
- Golden Hour
- Tea On The Kettle
- Paper Time
- When You Get Back