![]() ![]() Living up to Peripheral Vision, the album that many refer to as being their best, the band’s fourth studio release includes new elements that propel them away from the sounds of the past. Introducing themselves to the crowd for the first time that night, Turnover opened with “Still in Motion,” a song you sing in your car while driving down the highway with the windows down. ![]() The inclusion of the keyboard into the live show added another dimension to the performance’s sonic texture. Songs from the most recent album opened the show accompanying a mystical light show created by haze and magenta hues. Taking a step away from the guitar the group’s vocalist, Austin Getz, tries his hand at the keyboard while the addition of another guitarist brings the previous foursome up to a five-piece ensemble. Celebrating their crossover into a genre with just as much honesty, but softer melodies, the band are on tour with their November release, Altogether. The Virginia-bred collective stopped by the Majestic Theatre in Detroit on December 7 th. It seems as though Turnover have been reinventing themselves since their 2015 release, Peripheral Vision, a lyrically honest and twinkly full length. Although it’s possible that Turnover chose to hold onto their most daring cuts for when the full album streams, this truly lackluster batch of singles from a band who’ve historically pushed their own boundaries is unexpectedly disheartening.From dreamo (dreamy emo) to surf rock, the members of Turnover have rebranded themselves into an outfit with bouncy bass lines and jazzy undertones. Catchiness was the paramount of PV a delightful sendoff to their pop-punk past by appropriating the genre’s earworminess and turning it into something fresh and promising. “Bonnie” follows the same groove as nearly every PV track, it features roughly the same instrumental effects and worst of all, it doesn’t even offer a vaguely memorable hook. Instead, what we’ve gotten so far are three songs that sound like PV melded with the new Real Estate album essentially the difference between Coke and Pepsi. The band’s massive sonic overhaul between 2013’s Magnoliaand PV proved that they were capable of shapeshifting a la Title Fight or even Brand New, which is why fans shouldn’t have expected anything less for Good Nature. Unfortunately, like the other two singles from Turnover’s forthcoming record Good Nature, “Bonnie (rhythm & melody)” is yet another uninspiring sibling to any one song that the band’s dropped since 2015, which includes last year’s excellent Humblest Pleasuresseven-inch. Though musically repetitive, the brisk basslines and hazy guitar effects hanging over Peripheral Vision‘s 11 tracks stripped away much of the unnecessary angst of their earlier material, lending themselves to Austin Getz’s genuinely chilling lyrics about the crushing uncertainty of his early twenties. If nothing else, Peripheral Vision was the bridge into indie for a whole swath of kids making their exit from Warped Tour-dom. ![]() Whereas Basement’s Promise Everythingand Balance And Composure’s Light We Made ultimately alienated fans for either their intimacy with pop-rock, or their directionless attempt at Cure-esque goth-rock, Turnover’s 2015 record Peripheral Visionwas a surprisingly sleek transition into gazey, dreamy yet still melodic indie rock. Beginning as arguably the most underrated “soft-grunge” act to spawn from the Run For Cover/No Sleep Records roster of 2012-2014ish, very few would’ve guessed that Turnover would be the ones to stick the cleanest landing after their leap from pop-punk to indie. ![]()
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