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.

1. Playing Favorites
   
2. Eat It and Beat It
   
3. All Lined Up
   
4. Don't Come Lookin'
   
5. I Gotta Go
   
6. Moonstruck
   
7. Mechanical Garden
   
8. Golden Hour
   
9. Tea On The Kettle
   
10. Paper Time
    
11. When You Get Back