Revolving Doors

Revolving Doors is an instrumental rock band based out of Madison/Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drawing from music between jazz and rock to electronica; this three piece has created a sound of their own. Experimenting with these sounds has allowed the band to be limitless in their creativity, resulting in music that's not easily categorized. A hybrid of three individual's influences and experiences.



"It turns out Madison-Milwaukee instrumental band Revolving Doors’ second album, Songs For Car Commercials, is a good one to put on while washing dishes. In this case, that’s a compliment: While a lot of instrumental-rock groups get stuck heaving themselves through one windy crescendo after another, Revolving Doors’ earnest and layered blend of pop melodies and electronic treatments can actually catch listeners off-guard in such lonely or dull moments." -The Onion (Madison, WI)



"Revolving Doors' music is as enchanting as it is loud. The track “I

Still Wish I Could Breathe Underwater” is a perfect example of this

with soothing keys and glockenspiel backed by ethereal guitar play that

reverberates through headphones. The song is short and sweet, something

some bands of Revolving Doors' ilk could learn a few things about." -Dane101.com (Madison, WI)



RD makes the best of its trio format (drums, keys, guitars, with the occasional sample) with nimble shifts in rhythm and mood, and seems to sound as huge or as sneaky as it wishes. -The Onion (Madison, WI)



Fact is, Revolving Doors end up sounding like no one else with their hypnotic swirl of samples, electronics, keys, hovering, fluid guitars and kinetic rhythms. -City Beat (Cincinnati, OH)



"The Sound of Forgetting" is a funeral soundscape in the spirit of Radiohead's post-Kid A efforts until it climaxes with an amp-rattling crescendo, while "My New Favorite Abacus" is a looser cut indebted to Tortoise's glitchy jazz and Explosions in the Sky's most tranquil moments. -The Shepherd Express (Milwaukee, WI)



"Turquoise Stopwatch" is energetic riff-based rock. "Monolith" and "The Sound of Forgetting" are more pensive, with an artier vibe. "Time Will Tell" and "Is That It?" are chiming ballads. "My New Favorite Abacus" is mixes a understated dance-y beat with ringing guitars and a melancholy spirit. -OnMilwaukee.com



"My New Favorite Abacus" is perhaps the highlight of the album. Electro beats fuse with shimmering tremolos and some insistent keyboard lines; you might very well have trouble refraining from foot-tapping along to the end result (I know I did). -TheSilentBallet.com