Monday, October 6, 2025

Bask - The Turning (2025)

 

The fourth album from this band from USA.

The band was a quintet with a lineup of drums, bass, banjo, guitars and vocals.

Three guests added cello, piano, organ and trumpet.  

This is a new band to me. I got a promo copy of this album and put it on my long list of new albums to be reviewed.

The music on this forty minutes long album is a blend of psych rock, country and classic hard rock. The music is still pretty weird and left-field. 

I cannot even find any bands I can compare this band with as Bask is pretty much of my charts of what I am used to. 

The music is hard and it also sounds fresh. There is a lot of good guitars here but not so many guitar solos... if any at all.

The music is indeed a bit left field although  the band describes themselves as hillbillies. The band is indeed from North Carolina, the rural hilly, forested hillbilly area.  

The result is plainly weird but also a pretty good album. I cannot say this album has won me over but it still deserves to be checked out.

2.5 points

 

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