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Track List
01) Meet Me in the Street
02) Need to Feel Your Love
03) Just Can't Get Enough
04) Expect the Bayonet
05) Rank and File
06) Turn It Up
07) Suffer Me
08) Pure Desire
09) Until You Find the One
10) Milk and Honey
11) Can't Play It Cool
12) (Say Goodbye to) Sophie Scholl
01) Meet Me in the Street
02) Need to Feel Your Love
03) Just Can't Get Enough
04) Expect the Bayonet
05) Rank and File
06) Turn It Up
07) Suffer Me
08) Pure Desire
09) Until You Find the One
10) Milk and Honey
11) Can't Play It Cool
12) (Say Goodbye to) Sophie Scholl
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"Need to Feel Your Love" is the debut full length studio album from American rock band Sheer Mag, released July 14, 2017 through Wilsuns Recording Company.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 24 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim ".
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On their debut LP, Sheer Mag keep biting at the forbidden fruit of 1970s hard rock. They dance the line between proto-metal and power pop on songs about romantic obsession and societal oppression.
The band’s first proper full-length, Need to Feel Your Love, plays like a Dazed and Confused soundtrack set against a backdrop of Trump-age anxiety instead of carefree Carter-era optimism. On the opening “Meet Me in the Street,” Halladay repurposes the cocksure posturing of an old Ratt lyric as an invitation to the sort of inner-city gathering where the bottles are filled with burning gasoline instead of booze—and where hard rock is both the rabble-rousing soundtrack of choice and something to hurl at the encroaching riot police. But if that song is meant to leave bruises, with others they intend to draw blood: On “Expect the Bayonet,” the gerrymandering that undermined the popular vote in last fall’s election becomes grounds for a violent coup, as the song’s pin-pricked, in-the-pocket guitar melody mimics a gently jabbing blade.
The cover of Need to Feel Your Love shows an airplane navigating dark, stormy skies toward a bright break in the clouds. On one level, it’s a Nevermind-like allegory of a band on the cusp of busting out of the underground to the potentially wider audience that awaits on the other side. It’s also emblematic of Sheer Mag’s desire to power us through these turbulent times toward better days—but they can’t say with certainty if those clouds are parting or closing in. Need to Feel Your Love closes on a sobering note with the melancholic jangle pop of “(Say Goodbye to) Sophie Scholl,” an ode to the White Rose Movement activist executed by the Nazis in 1943 at age 21. In Scholl, Halladay clearly sees an inspirational role model for today’s anti-fascist resistance, but her voice is also imbued with an audible sadness that such a song still needs to be sung in 2017—in America, no less: “It seems so strange/The blind constrictions and nascent pain/The contradiction from which we came.” It’s a long way from the boisterous, brick-tossing battle cries we hear at the start of the record. But when Halladay caps the song’s bittersweet chorus with “don’t forget your white rose,” she reminds us that despair is ultimately the energy source that fuels our ire.
Reviewed by Stuart Berman for pitchfork.com.
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"Need to Feel Your Love" is the debut full length studio album from American rock band Sheer Mag, released July 14, 2017 through Wilsuns Recording Company.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 83, based on 24 reviews, indicating "Universal acclaim ".
User Album Review
On their debut LP, Sheer Mag keep biting at the forbidden fruit of 1970s hard rock. They dance the line between proto-metal and power pop on songs about romantic obsession and societal oppression.
The band’s first proper full-length, Need to Feel Your Love, plays like a Dazed and Confused soundtrack set against a backdrop of Trump-age anxiety instead of carefree Carter-era optimism. On the opening “Meet Me in the Street,” Halladay repurposes the cocksure posturing of an old Ratt lyric as an invitation to the sort of inner-city gathering where the bottles are filled with burning gasoline instead of booze—and where hard rock is both the rabble-rousing soundtrack of choice and something to hurl at the encroaching riot police. But if that song is meant to leave bruises, with others they intend to draw blood: On “Expect the Bayonet,” the gerrymandering that undermined the popular vote in last fall’s election becomes grounds for a violent coup, as the song’s pin-pricked, in-the-pocket guitar melody mimics a gently jabbing blade.
The cover of Need to Feel Your Love shows an airplane navigating dark, stormy skies toward a bright break in the clouds. On one level, it’s a Nevermind-like allegory of a band on the cusp of busting out of the underground to the potentially wider audience that awaits on the other side. It’s also emblematic of Sheer Mag’s desire to power us through these turbulent times toward better days—but they can’t say with certainty if those clouds are parting or closing in. Need to Feel Your Love closes on a sobering note with the melancholic jangle pop of “(Say Goodbye to) Sophie Scholl,” an ode to the White Rose Movement activist executed by the Nazis in 1943 at age 21. In Scholl, Halladay clearly sees an inspirational role model for today’s anti-fascist resistance, but her voice is also imbued with an audible sadness that such a song still needs to be sung in 2017—in America, no less: “It seems so strange/The blind constrictions and nascent pain/The contradiction from which we came.” It’s a long way from the boisterous, brick-tossing battle cries we hear at the start of the record. But when Halladay caps the song’s bittersweet chorus with “don’t forget your white rose,” she reminds us that despair is ultimately the energy source that fuels our ire.
Reviewed by Stuart Berman for pitchfork.com.
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