A Distant Call
by Sheer Mag
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
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  1. ChuckAmok
    Aug 28, 2019
    6
    Plenty of decent riffs and cool/chintzy guitar tones here but the songs are mostly just ok. I'm not gonna guess at the level of irony being deployed here, with so many nods to retro guitar rock. But often Tina Halladay sounds like she's trying too hard to push things over the top and they just won't go. Worth hearing and "Hardly to Blame" "The Killer" and "Keep on Runnin'" are keepers.

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. Under The Radar
    Dec 3, 2019
    65
    The more varied aspects of Need To Feel Your Love which made it such a fantastic debut, have mostly disappeared, resulting in a less rewarding listen. [Sep-Nov 2019, p.133]
  2. AllMusic
    Sep 6, 2019
    80
    These are songs that make you want to roll the windows down, light up a smoke, and pound the dashboard in agreement.
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  3. Dusted Magazine
    Sep 5, 2019
    80
    Ethos is a different and a more complex matter. If you put out your own records and sing about leftist issues, does that make you punk? Maybe they’re trying to do something more essential, to find a version of rock that’s conscious of its History at that same time that it grounds us in the Now. Sheer Mag’s songs do that, again and again. And you’ll want to listen to them, again and again.
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