Brendan Yates of Turnstile sat down for a new interview with Anti-Matter.

Putting out every record, there’s always a certain level of discomfort that comes with it. Or the tours we do. We’ve done tours before where we see an opportunity for something new, but we also know that it’s not necessarily the perfect hardcore tour—with comfortable venues, reactions, people, or that kind of thing. It’s placing ourselves in environments where we are the fish out of water, which I think we’ve done continuously in our time as a band. And it’s not always “the bigger thing.” Like, we did an arena tour last year not because it was the “biggest” thing we could do, but as an experience thing. It’s always gotta feel right, but it’s about finding that perfect sweet spot where it’s going to be uncomfortable, but it’s also going to be a totally new eye-opening experience in different ways. Sometimes you take away things that are negative from it, and sometimes you take away things that are positive, but that’s kind of a theme with our band. We’re always looking for that sweet spot of feeling like it’s something that feels true to us, but also feeling a level of discomfort that’s going to teach us something new or give us a new experience so that we’re never doing the same thing over and over.