SHEER MAG 'A Distant Call' LP
$39.00
A Distant Call is the second studio album by Sheer Mag. Highly recommended!
Sheer Mag return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. They're still writing about surviving our 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 herself. 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 felt possible to heal. It's heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. "We've 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. We're talking about how late capitalism alienates and commodifies whatever is in its path without using the term ate capitalism.'" Palmer and Halladay's new approach to lyricism extended to the recording process, too. Once the Seely brothers had laid down the tracks, Halladay recorded vocals with producer Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Code Orange).
1. STEELS SHARPENS STEEL
2. BLOOD FROM A STONE
3. UNFOUND MANIFEST
4. SILVER LINE
5. HARDLY TO BLAME
6. COLD SWORD
7. CHOPPING BLOCK
8. THE RIGHT STUFF
9. THE KILLER
10. KEEP ON RUNNIN'
Sheer Mag return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. They're still writing about surviving our 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 herself. 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 felt possible to heal. It's heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. "We've 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. We're talking about how late capitalism alienates and commodifies whatever is in its path without using the term ate capitalism.'" Palmer and Halladay's new approach to lyricism extended to the recording process, too. Once the Seely brothers had laid down the tracks, Halladay recorded vocals with producer Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Code Orange).
1. STEELS SHARPENS STEEL
2. BLOOD FROM A STONE
3. UNFOUND MANIFEST
4. SILVER LINE
5. HARDLY TO BLAME
6. COLD SWORD
7. CHOPPING BLOCK
8. THE RIGHT STUFF
9. THE KILLER
10. KEEP ON RUNNIN'
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