backyard tire fire

On their Hyena Records debut, Backyard Tire Fire stray a bit from their roots, with more piano-based songs than rockers.

t’s true, and cliché, to call a band like Backyard Tire Fire guitar heroes.  And with all the nasty licks and six-string thunder on their newest album, The Places We Lived, it’s difficult to resist from noting this.  But this impressive piece of work is more than a heap of broken guitar strings, it’s rather a complete presentation built on solid songs, brief harmony, and homespun musicianship, and it shines.