{"id":41581,"date":"2024-01-17T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/?p=41498"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:29:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T15:29:28","slug":"band-profile-turnstile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/band-profiles\/band-profile-turnstile\/","title":{"rendered":"Band Profile: Turnstile"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nTurnstile is a lesson in ‘how its done’.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Formed in Baltimore, Maryland in 2010<\/strong>, the band has relentlessly toured, played shows, wrote music, and generally embraced the hardcore ethos<\/strong> of the edgy, core, punk-laced scene that surrounded them. What is immediately apparent about Turnstile after one wades through a few songs, is how easily the band can veer outside the lines of expectation that comes with being a ‘whatever-core’ band.<\/p>\n

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The pocket of creativity in which Turnstile exists is unique and rarely executed with precision and vision at this level. They can embrace any musical direction with a ‘What of it?’ attitude and make it work. I could choose 5 different Turnstile songs, and show them to 5 different people, and I’d get 5 different genre descriptions for a review.<\/p>\n

Some bands REQUIRE you listen to more than one song before you, ‘get it’. Turnstile is one of those bands.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

So let’s get this started with a track that has a hook so catchy… I can’t think up a clever ‘it’s so catchy….’ joke here, so let’s just say… the guitars in this song are pure hardcore riffage bliss<\/strong>. It’s the kind of riff that makes people who don’t typically like this kind of music go… “Yeah, that’s pretty cool…”. It’s the kind of riff EVERY rock guitarist wish he’d have wrote, because it’s dumb simple, but just so greasy cool.<\/strong> I give you ‘Holiday’<\/strong>…. (the vid has a couple songs, ‘Holiday’ is the first….)<\/p>\n

“Too bright to live, too bright to die<\/em>
\nI wanna celebrate<\/em>
\nBeauty is built not from outside<\/em>
\nAnd I imagine it”<\/em><\/h3>\n