Sheer Mag

A Distant Call

Sheer Mag return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. Theyre still writing about surviving the current hellscape, but this time around, the politics get extra-personal. The album verges on being a concept piece, and the protagonist resembles frontwoman Tina Halladay. The songs document a particularly alienating time in her life when she was laid off from a job. Broke and newly single, her father passed away, leaving her with more wounds than it felt possible to heal. Its heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. "Weve been waiting to write these songs since we started the band and we were able to take these experiences and build a story out of them," Halladay says. "A Distant Call makes an argument for socialism on an anecdotal level. Were talking about how late capitalism alienates and commodifies whatever is in its path without using the term late capitalism." Guitarist Matt Palmer and Halladays new approach to lyricism extended to the recording process, too. Once the brothers Hart and Kyle Seely had laid down the tracks, Halladay recorded vocals with producer Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Code Orange).

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LP - 1 disk
Release date
06-03-2020
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536296
EAN
8592735008410
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. STEELS SHARPENS STEEL 04:02
2. BLOOD FROM A STONE 02:37
3. UNFOUND MANIFEST 03:36
4. SILVER LINE 03:25
5. HARDLY TO BLAME 03:07
6. COLD SWORD 03:28
7. CHOPPING BLOCK 02:32
8. THE RIGHT STUFF 03:14
9. THE KILLER 04:43
10. KEEP ON RUNNIN' 03:07