Bask – The Turning 2025

Ever since they came rumbling down from the Blue Ridge Mountains, it was clear that Bask are cut from a different neck of the woods than their fellow Southern trailblazers. The climb to reach album number four wound up taking the Asheville natives on one hell of a trip. But The Turning takes Bask’s homebrewed Heavy Americana to a new dimension. While its lead single starts with boots firmly planted in familiar metallic pastures, “Dig My Heels” leaps into the great beyond thanks to a gentle nudge from the band’s newest member.

“We’ve been through so many trials and tribulations together over the past five years”, Bask says. “We were knocked down by COVID, then by Hurricane Helene. Seeing this album finally come to light is therapeutic for us. ‘The Turning’ is Bask at our finest. It’s our most cohesive and heartfelt effort, an ode to our mountain home in the sky”. The Turning comes out on August 22nd, 2025, via Season of Mist.

1. Chasm
2. In the Heat of the Dying Sun
​3. The Traveler
4. The ​Cloth
5. Dig My Heels
6. Unwound
7. Long Lost Light
8. The Turning

Jesse Van Note – Bass
Scott Middleton – Drums
Ray Worth – Guitar
Zeb Wright – Guitar/Vocals
Jed Willis – Pedal Steel

Guest musicians:
Clay White – Trumpet
Franklin Keel – Cello
Alex Taub – Piano, Hammond B3 Organ