Name: A Distant Call
Brand: Sheer Mag

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WRC093

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-09-13

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

F Minor

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

8592735008410

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Sheer Mag

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Wilsuns RC

Sheer Mag return with their sophomore album,<i> A Distant Call</i>. 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. <i>A Distant Call </i>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 ‘late 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). 

A Distant Call

Music GB