Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites

Released: 01/03/24

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 recognisable as theirs alone. On Playing Favourites, Sheer Mag's third full-length and first with Third Man Records, the band capitalise 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.