If you people didn’t know this already I’m a huge baseball fan. I live, eat and sleep Red Sox baseball. Listening to My Turn To Win’s song Pull Yourself Together off No Challenge has the intensity of waiting for the first pitch of the 9th inning with a tie game on the line. It winds up and then lets lose and before you know it you’re jaw drops. That’s why My Turn To Win has managed to do for hardcore right now and let’s just saying I’m damn excited.
My only gripe with this EP is that it is indeed only an EP. It’s five songs, which is not nearly enough of My Turn To Win to satisfy. The whole thing clocks in at about ten minutes, but for those ten minutes it’s shredding. The vocals are brutal but clear and concise enough for anyone to memorize and repeat back, the mark of a great hardcore album. There are times when I feel like it gets a bit screechy when the high notes are hit, but I excuse it because the drugs and guitar is so bad ass. The breakdown on Song Title is for lack of a better term: fucking amazing. One of my favorites on the EP is Everything I Wanna Say Kill Your Idols Said Better because it brings a really good point up that if you can’t get from the song title you’re mildly retarded.
Shouldn’t come as a shock this release comes from Thorp Records. Go buy it immediately and support this band. Show them that we would all like to hear more My Turn To Win in the future. This EP has been on constant rotation at my desk, so much so I burned two copies so I could listen to it at home and the office. My Turn To Win is one of the first hardcore bands in awhile that doesn’t get old upon repeated listen and whose tracks are diverse. I totally dig this album in case you couldn’t tell.
