Sheer Mag Share the Love on Playing Favorites

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Sheer Mag Share the Love on Playing Favorites
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Philadelphia hard-rockers Sheer Mag rig sadness into joy on 'Playing Favorites,' their third LP and Third Man Records debut.

. Conceived while its members were living together in a Philadelphia spot called “The Nuthouse” and dedicated to going big, the band has always been a little larger-than-life—there’s a story bouncing around about them spray-painting the band’s metal-esque logo onto a white bed sheet to hang in the living room, as both a statement of purpose and banner of unified vision.

There’s a guardedness to all this brawling and self-aware self-destruction, of course, a fear of vulnerability that both can mask. In lesser hands, it’d go unaddressed in the name of focusing on the fun, but Sheer Mag are acutely aware of it—and in the wake of “Mechanical Garden,” that seed of introspection blossoms across three odes to domesticity and connection, however unlikely they might be.

By the end of closing track “When You Get Back,” though, those promises come up empty. Over the daydreaming and the doo-wop background harmonies, Halladay cuts to the chase: “When you get back, I’ll let you know just what you mean to me.” Bookending the album’s grateful intro, this poignant finale is a cautionary tale against not saying what you mean, a reminder of how important the compassion that beams on “Playing Favorites” is.

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