1. Chasm 01:29
2. In the Heat of the Dying Sun 04:57
3. The Traveler 04:05
4. The Cloth 04:11
5. Dig My Heels 05:32 video
6. Unwound 07:02
7. Long Lost Light 06:52
8. The Turning 06:32
They’ve always sounded of their own time and place, but on their long-awaited fourth album, BASK take Heavy Americana to a whole new dimension.
BASK remain grounded in the natural-born sounds of Appalachia, which pokes its prickly head through their sludgier tracks, but ‘The Turning’ truly straddles the fence between cosmic and country. Though already in the band’s orbit, this is their first album to welcome Jed Willis as an official member. Lead single “Dig My Heels” starts with its boots firmly planted in rugged pastures before bounding for the great beyond, where Willis’ pedal steel swirls like all the colors of the Milky Way.
‘The Turning’ doesn’t just span genres. It stretches across generations in man’s never-ending quest for immortality. The album's spurred heroine, known simply as The Rider, has her extraterrestrial world turned upside down by "The Traveller", a mysteriously ageless gunslinger, who arrives armed with a double-barreled riff atop galloping drums. Maze-like twists are revealed at every self-referential turn as the star-crossed outlaws try and outrun the changing of the seasons. But while out of this world, the dwellings on family, aging, death and rebirth hit close... more
credits
released August 22, 2025
Recording Studio: Echo Mountain Recording
Producer & Sound Engineer: Kenny Harrington
Mixing Studio: Acre Audio
Mixing Engineer: Andrew Schneider
Mastering Studio: West West Side Music
Mastering Engineer: Alan Douches
Recording Line-Up:
-Scott Middleton
-Jesse Van Note
-Ray Worth
-Zeb Wright
-Jed Willis
Guest Musicians:
-Clay White - trumpet
-Franklin Keel - cello
-Alex Taub - piano, Hammond b3 |
