{"id":798655,"date":"2019-08-19T09:02:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=873313"},"modified":"2019-08-19T09:02:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T15:02:14","slug":"hear-sheer-mags-gritty-new-song-the-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-sheer-mags-gritty-new-song-the-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Sheer Mag\u2019s Gritty New Song \u2018The Killer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sheer Mag<\/a> singer Tina Halladay howls about a killer having you \u201cright between the eyes\u201d on the Philadelphia outfit\u2019s new song, \u201cThe Killer.\u201d The track will appear on Sheer Mag\u2019s upcoming LP, A Distant Call<\/em>, out August 23rd.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Killer\u201d owes a debt to Seventies hard rock, thanks to guitarists Matt Palmer and Kyle Seely\u2019s muscular riffs, but the way the backup vocals ring out, \u201cIt\u2019s the killer, it\u2019s the killer,\u201d makes the song more than a six-string showcase.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s unclear, though, is just who the killer is. Halladay starts out by saying that he\u2019s \u201cshaking hands on the senate floor,\u201d but in a statement, she said it\u2019s not necessarily one person. \u201cThere are many killers out there. The Killer is a liar with a strangle hold on the world. The Killer is a war criminal the corrupt of society have produced and protected. The Killer spends his life covering up atrocities and defending right-wing dictatorships. The Killer stifles accountability and truth. We want to know, when does The Killer die?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Killer\u201d is the penultimate track on A Distant Call<\/em>, a quasi\u2013concept album that chronicles a time when Halladay was out of work, single, and trying to make sense of the death of her father \u2014 a man with whom she had a difficult relationship. The band previously released \u201cBlood From a Stone,\u201d<\/a> off the record.<\/p>\n

A Distant Call<\/em> follows Sheer Mag\u2019s 2017 debut, Need to Feel Your Love<\/em>, which placed at Number 22<\/a> on Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> Best Albums of 2017 list. That record\u2019s \u201cFan the Flames\u201d<\/a> also made it onto Rolling Stone\u2019s<\/em> Best Songs list that year. Prior to all of that, Rolling Stone<\/em> included the ensemble on our list of 10 Great Modern Punk Bands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sheer Mag singer Tina Halladay howls about a killer having you \u201cright between the eyes\u201d on the Philadelphia outfit\u2019s new song, \u201cThe Killer.\u201d The track will appear on Sheer Mag\u2019s upcoming LP, A Distant Call, out August 23rd. \u201cThe Killer\u201d owes a debt to Seventies hard rock, thanks to guitarists Matt Palmer and Kyle Seely\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 12:19:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}