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Outwardly, Asheville doesn’t seem a likely place to have birthed a gnarly stoner rock band. Yet Bask’s Ramble Beyond, released last year, delivers on the promise of its title by embracing the Appalachian hamlet’s omnivorous spirit. Bask’s music comes with qualifiers that overlap at odd intersections, sure—epic, heavy psychedelic Americana seems to be the most succinct way to sum up the quartet. But it operates within powerful Southern archetypes— Mastodon’s malleable and massive movements, Skynyrd’s sweet and loping lilt, Weedeater’s bong-aided depths—while simultaneously pushing past them. —Patrick Wall