SHEER MAG unveil new video “Suffer Me” – ‘Need To Feel Your Love’ Coming July 14 – Extend North American tour

Philadelphia’s SHEER MAG unveil new video “Suffer Me” – the very first track written off their nearing debut full-length Need To Feel Your Love. “Suffer Me” addresses the Stonewall Riots that took place in Greenwich Village in 1969, the ongoing battles of the LGBTQ+ community and fighting for your rights.

WATCH “SUFFER ME” NOW VIA PITCHFORK

I knew (and know) that the LGBTQ+ community has been discriminated against and treated immorally for the whole of this country’s existence but I was depressed and upset learning all this. I was heartened however, by the vigilance of the drag queens and assembled queer people outside of the Stonewall Inn that night. Having been pushed too far by the police, and after years of abuse and slander, they fought back against their tormentors. I was inspired by the audacity of the resistance mounted at Stonewall and felt like it was a story worth commemorating with the sort of “topical” folk song that would have been popular in Greenwich Village in 1969. However, I was concerned with co-opting the undeniably queer narrative with my inherently straight perspective. To account for this, the story is told by an omniscient narrator with a bird’s eye view of the action. What the narrator sees is a burgeoning police state operating without conscience or remorse, and a community tired of being oppressed and ready to fight back.”

SHEER MAG’s Tina Halladay continues, “people have an odd fascination with what others choose to do with their lives. Too often the people speaking against something have some of those feelings harbored deep within them that they don’t know how to deal with. The world is changing and those people are going to have to deal with the fact that you cannot control others.”

“Suffer Me” debuted via Pitchfork TV. The video’s director and frequent collaborator, Philip Steiger explains “the video explores themes of a lingering passiveness and indecisiveness. For the performance we strived to enter a realm of total magness that wasn’t bound by contemporary standards of rock n roll. The combination of VHS and 35mm correlates with SHEER MAG’s aesthetic, uniting classical technique with nuance.”

Sheer Mag’s Need To Feel Your Love is out July 14 on Wilsuns RC. They hit the road in support of the record, touring North America and Europe extensively.  Highlights include Brooklyn’s House of Vans next month, DC, Chicago, LA, Austin, Toronto and so much more. Haram, Lost Balloons, Flesh World and Tony Molina join as support – check out the full list below for details.