★★★★★
This young Philadelphia band's second EP is a promising 4-song blend of lo-fi garage-punk with classic-rock guitar riffs and high-energy soul, combining a blown-out sound with defiant lyrics attacking gentrification and class privilege. 5/1/2015
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- kexp.org
2015-05-02
★★★★★
Fuck yuppies, fuck slumlords, fuck cops and the rich--make no mistake, this is the message Sheer Mag wants you to hear. It's coded into their lyrics and built into the young Philadelphia band's blown-out grooves, which match swaggering soul force with a defiant punk spirit. Sheer Mag might reference 1970s classic rock every time they holler and shred, but their gnarled, whiskey-fueled pop-in-miniature is of a singular breed: There aren't many contemporary bands you could imagine unironically...
- pitchfork.com
2015-04-25
★★★★★
Fuck yuppies, fuck slumlords, fuck cops and the rich--make no mistake, this is the message Sheer Mag wants you to hear. It's coded into their lyrics and built into the young Philadelphia band's blown-out grooves, which match swaggering soul force with a defiant punk spirit. Sheer Mag might reference 1970s classic rock every time they holler and shred, but their gnarled, whiskey-fueled pop-in-miniature is of a singular breed: There aren't many contemporary bands you could imagine unironically...
- pitchfork.com
2015-04-24
★★★★★
Sheer Mag belong to a growing number of DIY bands whose guitarists remember their guitar lessons. Not unlike Tony Molina, they appeal to a broad spectrum of punk and hardcore kids and regularly circle the continent playing dives and punk houses, but still manage to grind out crowd-pleasing guitar solos in every song. They're hard working, they're memorable and, to put it in industry jargon, they're going places...
- exclaim.ca
2015-04-09
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