Sheer Mag - Playing Favorites

Released 1st March 2024

Sheer Mag have labored to carve out a discernibly singular position within the canon of contemporary rock: toggling with ease between the refined flourishes of a connoisseurs band and the ecstatic colloquialism of populist songwritingyet displaying no strict loyalty to either camptheir sound, while oft-referenced, is unmistakably and immediately recognizable as theirs alone. On Playing Favorites, Sheer Mags third full-length and first with Third Man Records, the band capitalize on a decades worth of devotion to their own collective spirita spirit refined in both the sweaty trenches of punk warehouses and the larger-than-life glamor of concert hallsemerging with a dense work of gripping emotions, massive hooks, and masterfully constructed power-pop anthems. Playing Favorites expands with a sense of undeniable vitality, buoyed by rock and rolls singular capacity to channel a relentless compassion for human life: as singer T