Sheer Mag are an electric shock. Their scrappy songs overflow with soulful vocals, a wicked back beat, and spry guitars that unleash sweet solos at the drop of the hat. This band manages that impossible thing, sounding familiar without being like anyone else. A rock historian might relate their sound to a doctrine of T. Rex-ology or Thin Lizzy-onomy and, yes, I'm sure they've heard those records. But this band isn't trying to bring back some lost rock and roll idyll. This is music for today. These songs occupy the present moment, righteous tunes about living in an imperfect world and dealing with the big problems of patriarchy, feeling lost, yuppie gentrifiers, and shitty landlords ("Fan the Flames" may be the best punk tune about living in a crappy house since X's "In This House That I Call Home"). These are protest songs, fight songs, tunes of shit-kicking defiance. And they all shred.
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Sheer Mag are on tour this summer. In June they're playing in Montreal and at the Ottawa Explosion Weekend with a million other amazing bands. See them there or anywhere you can!
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Posted by Jeff at May 12, 2015 5:30 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
