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Just Can't Get Enough

Sheer Mag

2017

Just Can't Get Enough

Release Date:  2017

By Pitchfork

Reviewed May 9, 2017

From the Philadelphia band’s debut album, Need To Feel Your Love

Generally speaking, Sheer Mag songs can be grouped into two categories: razor-throated resistance anthems, and broken-hearted confessionals. “Just Can’t Get Enough,” the searing first single from the Philadelphia band’s debut album Need To Feel Your Love, does away with that dichotomy, emerging instead as a moment of amorous optimism from these confrontational punks. According to Sheer Mag, the roiling ballad concerns “ACTUALLY being in love,” a topic that they admit frequently goes undiscussed in their songs, “without being cynical in some way”.

Sheer Mag’s musical cornerstones remain well intact on “Just Can’t Get Enough”: white-hot, solos exploding in a ball of static the exact moment they’re fretted; bluesy progressions pirouetting around bandleader Christina Halladay’s yowls like drunken ballerinas on a death march; snare drum taps that punch you square in the jaw. Against this foreboding backdrop, Halladay casts away her emotional armor, relinquishing her heart with relish: “My head’s spinnin’ from your love, and I just can’t get enough,” she declares, her voice bullhorn-like, the band backsliding behind her with a similar case of vertigo. Instead of finding some cure for the dizziness, Halladay and the band barrel headlong into the arms of a lover, carving out a sanctuary for two amidst the delirium: “I wanna run to you, baby/I don’t wanna take too long/I get dizzy with you, honey/Cause you keep me spinnin’ on.”

8:00 PM · May 9, 2017 · 2 Views