Turnstile’s having their deserved, long-time-coming moment with GLOW ON, making an NPR Tiny Desk (at home) pretty much inevitable. They set up in front of an installation by John Scharbach, coating the room in stuffed animals and expanding into some kind of exponential carnival game meant “to distort and manipulate the perception of a room, what it can or should be.” Normally doing what hardcore bands do at a live show (inciting mosh pits, etc), the band’s confined to their section of screen, with singer Brendan Yates sat in front of a Roland. Upon seeing the thumbnail of the video you wonder how they’re going to work it all out in that setting — but Yates’ vocals are so clean as he takes slightly different turns of melody from the recordings, with the power chords and cowbells raging on as normal beside him.
They perform a generous seven songs to the typical three or four, in a pristine flow from one to the next, with hundreds of googly-eyed plush faces standing in for the crowded pit. Mike Wisouwski looks like he’s mid-stage dive. Watch it here:
