Tier – Backwood Blues

 

 

Tier – Backwood Blues
Pink Tank Records – 2025
Rock, Blues, Stoner, Southern
Rated: ****

German trio Tier has a lot of cool friends. One of them stopped me at Freak Valley 2023, talked about their Dawner album and pushed the CD into my hands. And now, another buddy of them emailed me about their upcoming Backwood Blues album. Still some time before the release becomes official, but it has been playing quite incessantly over here. And when you also have the magnificent Mel Lie in your corner spreading the word, you can safely state there is no shortage of love for Tier. And I’m about to try and spread that love some more… I love the blues, especially that stonerized version known all over the world as Diesel Blues. Coined by the legendary Ventilators band from the Netherlands, it’s a term that should sweep the globe and produce many offspring. Well, or at least it’s known in my little mind as Diesel Blues and even though Tier probably never head of that term, they often produce great anthems for the genre on the eight track Backwood Blues album. There’s even a moment on the Keep Sweet single that reminds a little bit of Fuckin Pain by Ventilators. But to be honest, Backwood Blues is on a different level, and we should forget the comparison. Take the more psychedelic Aether Ride and its blissful guitar intro, and lovely percussion, the way it meanders and carries itself like a magical energy current. Hang Em Up, Keep Sweet and Execution Song have that Southern touch and that glorious working on a chain gang kind of vibe. Entropy, the more atavistic, high energy stonerrock track, with a riveting guitar solo that turns into a heatseeking missile before returning to the riff fold and taking the track to its conclusion. You get my drift right? There’s so much to love about this album, so it’s only logical that they have many lovers. And after you’ve heard this album, you will surely be one of them… Keep Sweet!

(Written by JK)

Listen to the Hang 'Em Up single right now and get ready for the Backwood Blues album, dropping May 16th through Pink Tank Records! Tier!

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