Clock-Out Lounge Presents:Sheer Magw/ Special GuestsTwompsaxStar PartyOct. 12th 8:30pm doors 21+$18adv/$20 dosSheer Mags dizzying rise initiated in 2014, when the Philadelphia band self-released the first of three 7-inches and started playing the Northeastern DIY circuit. Ironically, the music stood apart because it sounded so familiar. Indebted to 70s arena rock, power-pop, and proto-metal, Sheer Mags songs reminded a lot of us of the music we grew up with, but maybe couldnt relate to because it was big, brash, and unapologetically macho. Sheer Mag reclaimed some of that energy without perpetuating the toxicity. On their debut album, Need to Feel Your Love (2017), the band surveyed their contemporary political landscape through the lens of history. Singer Tina Halladay transported herself back to the 1969 Stonewall Riots, denounced redlining practices that undermine the popular vote, and paid homage to White Rose activist Sophie Scholl. On paper, its a mouthful, but accompanied by guitarist/lyricist Matt Palmer, guitarist Kyle Seely, and bassist/producer Hart Seely, those songs became hook-laden rallying cries.Two years later, Sheer Mag have returned with their sophomore album A Distant Call. Theyre 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 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 (with whom she had a fraught relationship) passed away, leaving her with more wounds than felt possible to heal.Weve 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. Palmer adds: We dont want people to be bogged down by pretension or theory. You dont need to have read Das Kapital to know that capitalism is terrible. A Distant Call makes an argument for socialism on an anecdotal level. Were talking about how late capitalism alienates and commodifies whatever is in its path without using the term late capitalism. Palmer and Halladays 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) as opposed to on an 8-track, which was the bands preferred method on previous releases.https://sheermag.bandcamp.com/Twompsax is a queer / trans punk band from Oakland CAhttp://twompsax.bandcamp.com/http://starpartyrocks.bandcamp.com
Clock-Out Lounge Presents Sheer Mag w/ special guests Twompsax, Star Party
