Release
date: March 24th 2017. Label: This Charming Man Records (EU) / Self
Aware Records (US). Format: CD/DD/Vinyl (Vinyl – due for release
May 2017).
Ramble
Beyond – Tracklisting
Asleep In the
Orchard - 7:34
Mush! Carry Me Home
-6:57
A Graceless Shuffle
- 4:48
The Lonesome Sound -
6:39
Kindled Green - 5:45
In the Black Fir -
7:35
Band
Members
Scott Middleton
Jesse Van Note
Ray Worth
Zeb Camp
Review
Bask
is a band with the competence and confidence to usher you into a
warm, luminescent netherworld with their original style, incredible
power and radiant beauty. This album has a farther reach and a more
top grade quality than its predecessor, however it doesn’t stray
far afield from the band’s sacred heart signature sound. This is a
psychedelic hard rock tour through the great American highlands.
This
album is never hard to grasp, owing to it’s hearty, polished sound
with all the fixings. It reminded me of many warm summer days in the
past when I would sit cozily in the backseat of my father’s
dilapidated sedan and listen to old 8-tracks on it’s antique tape
player...the discovery of splendour, delivered in stereo. The songs
are as catchy as the common cold, yet divergent as a strain of
influenza.
Asleep
in the Orchard is a song of graceful resonances attributed to the
lovely glide of elastic fingers along a tolerant fret board. The
background is awash with ambient sounds, muscle bound bass and
grandiloquent drums. The collective vocal delivery is analogous to
pouring several different carafe-filled varieties of preheated maple
syrup on eager awaiting waffle squares.
Mush!
Carry Me Home is pure transference of energy. The instruments build a
great fire as the clement singing rises higher and higher with
angelic delight. This is a refreshing dip in a glazed reservoir of
rejuvenation; a phenomenon reserved for the giant, mournful, mystical
buffalo. This song is a tremendous accomplishment that is expressed
in only a short brace of melodic minutes.
A
Graceless Shuffle is a buoyant tune. It is an almost cheerful track
with flavorings of an uppity and mighty chunk jam at about the
halfway mark. The end has some real explosive chemistry with its
conjoint lyrical and musical structure.
The
Lonesome Sound incorporates guitars that tear you open and cauterize
you at the same time. The drums offer quirkiness with a punch and the
bass is as fluid as a serene waterfall. The vocals stir emotion and
astonish your ears. This is pure harmonious acupuncture.
Kindled
Green is a dramatic arrangement of distorted riffs and ever so
gracious choral passages. Phosphor burns bright this substance
excited through smoky mountain pine tree secretion.
In
the Black Fir is a magnificent steed of a song comprised of calm
guitar strums, easy leads, and low-level distortion. This stallion
reaches its stride without a startle.
Bask
is a band that makes a house a home. They reveal a memorable,
familiar sound, with an open invitation to join in and form a
meaningful relationship with them through a gift…that gift being
their own brand of music. It is impossible to ignore this musical
offering and, regardless of righteous support, they will remain
embraced with their curiosity, avoid frustration and endure along the
exultant continuum.
This is some of the best material written by any
band; evidenced through above average songwriting ability, a
passionate, lyrical intelligence and heartfelt, musical talent. This
is a remarkable demonstration of melodic genius created by a shrewd
horde of big-footed giants…behold and bear witness to legends among
villagers!
Words
by Nick Palmisano
Thanks
to This Charming Records for the promo. Ramble Beyond will be
available to buy on CD/DD/Vinyl via This Charming Man Records (EU)
and Self Aware Records (US) from March 24th
2017. Vinyl will be released on May 19th
2017.
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