And while their songs may be chill, the boys absolutely explode on stage, so much so that Jonas took a roundabout into the maddening crowd and gladly accepted a beer from a guy next to him. Their influences from bands in arms and Carney’s coaching result in a singularly cohesive record. No Control is, classically speaking, a rock album. In anticipation of their latest album No Control, the band collaborated with Patrick Carney of the Black Keys (another Nashville native) to simplify their sound and rock louder than they had in albums previous. The boys from Turbo Fruits, with their gentlemanly southern drawls and perfectly loose denim shirts, have had a whirlwind year. It was in the back room that we found a lounging Turbo Fruits pre-hurricane, when Baby’s finally electrifies. The empty venue seems much smaller when one isn’t sardine-ed into a back wall, and the chipping wall paint and creaking floors felt like we were in a space that had once catered to rock classics. Popping into Baby’s All Right in the early evening, before the mustachioed and leather-draped crowds bustled in to see Nashville natives Turbo Fruits, was a bit like walking into the eye of a storm.
