Ears Wide Open: Sheare

S.Lo on August 6th, 2019

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If Sheare’s songs are “sad-core,” as the L.A. via New York songwriter/producer (né Brandon Sheer) describes his music, then it’s the happiest, catchiest sad ever committed to the record button. With major brand-name syncs (e.g., the Gap and Old Navy), the songwriter has also helped pen and produce the latest dance singles from Benny Benassi and Kaskade.

For his own songs, he throws it back to the pop and rock genres. His latest single, “Nightmare Baby” is technicolor candy-floss pop bliss. Shimmering synths, ’80s guitar grooves and a punchy rhythm section are the mirrored walls where he strikes his “Footloose” melodic moves.

Written and produced by Sheare, mixed by Matty Green and mastered by Robin Schmidt, he says of the song: “I wanted to make a song that sounded like if the Cure was asked to score a John Hughes movie that took place in 2019. It’s purposely cheeky lyrically speaking, and thematically it’s about [that] moment of realization that you’ve just romanticized a person and the actuality is they are nothing like what you had projected. They’re kind of a nightmare.”

Take a neon-lit romp through Sheare’s version of sad disillusionment and break out with your own 80’s-inspired dance moves.

||| Stream: “Nightmare Baby”