BASK Anemone Single Review

Extending the original song by nearly two minutes, North Carolina’s Bask, pay homage to the legendary Brian Jonestown Massacre song “Anemone”, available now via Seasons of Mist.

Fans of the original song will rejoice in the fact that this cover is a pretty faithful reproduction of the original song in that the vibe and composition remain intact and no attempts are made to re-style or reinvent the song. The wheel is intact and the song remains the same as they say.

I have had the honor of interviewing the song’s chief creator, Anton Newcombe and I can honestly say that I think he’d feel honored by this beautiful cover but I also know that he might throw shade at it as unnecessary and that the Massacre’s most diehard fans would probably have the same thing to say. That said, this song wasn’t covered as a gift to it’s creator or the fans of the original.

If you stumbled into Bask’s version of this in the wild, with no knowledge of the original, you’d be pulled in by the greatness of the song as well as the Bask-ness of it with the texture of acoustic and traditional country music instruments as well as enough electrified, Earthless style vintage, warped drive metallicness  and Pink Floyd-esque delay apocalypse sprinkled with just the right amount of spaghetti western twang-verb to please the headiest of musical cruisers. Put this song on a playlist with The Monkees “Porpoise Song”, Pink Floyd’s “Fearless”, Jane’s Addiction’s “Summertime Rolls” and Sleep’s “Dopesmoker”, take a handful of mushrooms and press play.

You can thank me later.

~Rev