{"id":53633,"date":"2025-12-11T15:28:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/turnstile-talk-grammy-nominations-for-never-enough-film-dreams\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:28:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:28:42","slug":"turnstile-talk-grammy-nominations-for-never-enough-film-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/11\/turnstile-talk-grammy-nominations-for-never-enough-film-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnstile Talk Grammy Nominations for ‘Never Enough,’ Film Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\tFor Turnstile<\/a> singer Brendan Yates, much of this past year has felt like a dream \u2014 a description he peppers throughout his conversation with Rolling Stone <\/em>in the wake of his group\u2019s latest Grammy nods<\/a>. The Baltimore hardcore<\/a> band made history last month when their fourth album, Never Enough<\/em>, scored nominations in the Rock<\/a>, Metal, and Alternative categories, marking the first time one act has been nominated in all three of those categories in one year. And that\u2019s just the frosting on an incredible 12 months.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhether they were making a movie, playing in their hometown, or hitting the top 10 on the Billboard<\/em> album charts, it\u2019s been Turnstile\u2019s year \u2014 way beyond the moment when Charli XCX was slinging the phrase \u201cTurnstile Summer.\u201d<\/a> The way Yates sees it, the Grammy nominations reflect the wide-ranging influences that went into that triumph. \u201cEver since our band existed, the DNA that has made this band is spread across so many different kinds of music,\u201d Yates tells me. \u201cComing from our perspective, this is a representation of the music that inspires us and has shaped us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRolling Stone <\/em>spoke with Yates about awards, genre, and the band\u2019s next dream.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe talked about this with Glow On<\/em>, when you were nominated<\/a> in Rock and Metal, but what is genre these days?<\/strong>
It can be very subjective. Genre definitely can be a good guide for finding sounds that you like in certain worlds. Hardcore is maybe more of a culture and a community. At a hardcore show, you can have bands that all sound very different, but there\u2019s a shared essence.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe grew up going to punk and hardcore shows. And we grew up listening to rock. We grew up listening to metal, to alternative, to R&B, to rap, to electronic music. We listened to all kinds of things. We\u2019ve never denied ourselves the musical influences that have been a part of our lives growing up, what our parents were playing when we were kids. Everyone is kind of just a sponge of what they are drawn to. I think it\u2019s important to not put a box around what you naturally are drawn to.<\/p>\n

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\n\tWhat were you drawn to between these two records? How did your sound evolve?<\/strong>
When you\u2019re writing, you have songs that kind of linger. You have mantras in your head that you kind of sing over and over, that you think one day might become a song. When forming this album, I found myself just in my room with a synth and a guitar and a piano. The synth made its way into a lot of different textures on the album just based on spending time in a room.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome songs stay in that world, and some go to other places. But just starting from a very simple place can shape where a record goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat were some of the mantras you had stuck in your head?<\/strong>
The song \u201cNever Enough\u201d has existed in my head for a long time. The words and the melody can exist for a while in your head before they actually are fully fleshed out. It was [about] a lot of different life experiences \u2014 about the feeling of love always falling short, or feeling like it\u2019s falling short of having a lasting impact. This feeling of constantly chasing and constantly reaching. That can be a pattern, that, if you\u2019re stuck in it, it\u2019s really hard to escape. Sometimes you can feel that way yourself, or you can feel yourself really reaching for someone else and just not feeling like that they\u2019re able to hear.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWe knew right away, when that song found its form, that that was leading the way with what this record needed to be. It spoke to a lot of the last few years of our lives, since the last album.<\/p>\n

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