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Turnstiles’ Debut Record Never Should Have Happened. But Hold Your Proverbial Horses Right There. That’s Not To Say That It’s A Bad Record. Far From It. Still The Truth Of The Matter Is That From The Very Outset The Odds Were Stacked Well Against The Possibility Of These Moncton Lads Ever Putting Much Of Anything Down On Tape. Throughout High School Jesse Olivier Pete And Shane Found Respite—from The Angst Acne And Various Other Alliterative Actualities Of Adolescence—in The Form Of Music. Through An Assortment Of Band Name And Lineup Changes The Boys Never Really Aspired To Anything Beyond Playing Assemblies Coffee Houses And Perhaps The Occasional Car Show. Upon Returning From Their First Year Of Post-Secondary However Something Wondrously Inexplicable Or Inexplicably Wondrous—or Both Happened They Just Kind Of Umm Kept Going. Now Fast-Forward To The Summer Of 2005. Still Spending Most Of Their Time Scattered In Various Cities Throughout The Maritimes The Four Convene On Weekends Desperately Learning New Tunes And Working Out Arrangements—often Only Days Before Studio Time Is Booked. Nevertheless With The Right Honourable Former-Superfriend Charles Austin Credits Buck 65 Matt Mays Joel Plaskett At The Helm The Band Now Known As Turnstiles Drawing Their Name From A Neil Young Song Work Well Into The Fall Completing The Record—all The While Keeping Up With Their Fourth-Year University Workloads. After Mixing And Mastering At Long Last Turnstiles Manage To Release 13 Telephone Towers—just In Time To Ring In 2006. And What Does The Year Aught-Six Hold For Turnstiles? CBC Radio 3 Suggests That “The Maturity Of Their Sound Would Indicate That These Musicians Have Been In The Business All Their Lives. We Suspect Turnstiles Will Be Thee Band Of 2006!” Indeed Both The Quality Of Songwriting And The Level Of Sonic Experimentation On Their Debut Certainly Belies Their Age. From Grandaddyesque Space-Pop To Beatlesque Piano-Pop Turnstiles Churn Out Often-Danceable “rock Songs With Intrigue And Charm” Dalhousie Gazette Which Are—like Those Of Wilco The Band Or The Rheostatics—as Much Rooted In Tradition As They Are Entangled With Exploration And Innovation. Three Songwriters Strong The Group Covers A Whole Lot Of Ground On 13 Telephone Towers Making For A Damned Impressive Debut. Arguably As Damned Impressive As The Fact That It Ever Got Made In The First Place. Turnstiles Has Successfully Toured The Maritime University Towns Since 2001 Attracting Impressive Crowds In Halifax Antigonish Moncton St. John Fredericton And Sackville. They Have Received Steady Airplay On University Radio Stations Charting Across The Nation And Have Also Been Featured As Artists Of The Week On CBC Radio 1's Atlantic Airwaves. Turnstiles Has Shared The Bill With Such Acts As Slowcoaster And God Made Me Funky And Has Played In Various Music Festivals Including The Halifax Pop Explosion In 2005. The Band Completed Its First Cross-Canadian Tour In The Summer Of 2006. read less