Release Date: February 07th 2025. Record Label: Self Released. Formats: DD
Sky Offering - Track Listing:
1.SKY OFFERING 05:02
2.THE GREEN 06:24
3.HILLS 09:00
4.FRIEND OR FOE 05:28
5.HOLLOW 06:40
Review
Sky Offering is the new EP from Psych/Doom/Desert/Stoner Rockers Redwood and follows their superb 2024 EP - Dry Rivers. The record has a slightly haggard Doom Rock approach which allows their flavour of Desert Rock to be quite subdued but with a more aggressive sound which lays on the gloomy FUZZ mighty thick within the exquisite opening title track.
Sky Offering is helped along by different levels of swirling Cosmic Rock which is quite vivid and superbly melodic with a slight Prog Rock attitude appearing that is perhaps influenced by the likes of ELDER and KING BUFFALO yet again. The vocals are perfectly suited to the music with Redwood playing to their main strengths which encompasses a more Post-Doom and Post-Stoner attitude which is delivered right throughout the whole EP.
The next two tracks of The Green and Hills offer the heaviest, fuzziest and spaced out grooves on the EP with matching Ambient sounds harking a new area of Space Rock for Redwood to play with. The music is powered by classic Desert/Fuzz Rock instrumental passages that are quite similar to the likes of FU MANCHU, KYUSS and TRUCKFIGHTERS.
However, Redwood blaze their own highly original blend of Stoner Rock magic specially on the standout track of Hills. The track is quite long and sees Redwood once again embrace a heavier and tighter Progressive based sound where the music becomes JAM based which leads into heavier riffs with a sense of Psychedelic LUST moving in the background.
The final two tracks of Friend Or Foe and Hollow allows Redwood to settle back into a classic style of Doom/Stoner Rock with waves of Space Rock and the sandy Psychedelic dunes of the Desert Rock landscape to inject a lysergic feeling into the mix. This part of the EP is perhaps the more straightforward with catchy grooves and lyrical themes but Redwood still finds the time to bring that COSMIC DOOM swagger until the dying seconds of the EP.
Sky Offering is a soulful and brilliant slice of Cosmic Doom/Stoner Rock that will take you into the far reaches of the WEEDIAN MULTIVERSE.
Words by Steve Howe
Thanks to Good Boy PR for the promo.
