While Magnolia is largely dominated by the punk riffs that defined Turnover’s debut EP, it signalled the beginning of their experimentation their knack for taking on other sounds and incorporating it in their own distinct energy beginning to come to light. “ I can't shake these thoughts that haunt my mind ,” frontman Austin Getz booms, his voice crackling with emotive screams signature of emo’s prevalence in late-00’s heavy-rock. It’s a chaotic two-minutes-twenty of punk that acts as a brief outcry in a time when many acts would have their longing span five-plus minutes (streaming’s influence on song length wasn’t a factor in 2011, because it largely didn’t exist). Solitude, the EP’s second song, really encapsulates what made Turnover such an exciting new prospect to punk-rock from the get-go. Turnover is - generally speaking - centred around a high-tempo ferocity characteristic of the explosive pop-punk that defined the early-tens, and for many, the hyper-emotive lyricism (something you’d often find within the emo-punk world), was an instant drawcard. Released in 2011, two years following the band’s inception on the US east coast, Turnover is a five-track exploration into the group at their then-state and when diving back into the EP, it’s not hard to work out why they were so quickly placed within the pop-punk box that would come to define their work since, regardless of how it sounds. Grab the record here.įor many, Turnover’s self-titled EP was their first introduction to the band. Here, walking through their discography one major release at a time, we track the constant changing shift of Turnover and their continual evolution across the years, finding an end at their new album Altogether and the new sounds that it introduces. It’s a sonically-rich affair that yet again, highlights the band’s changing look and corresponding soundscapes their constant state of forward-thinkingness on display as they continue to pave a path into hook-rich indie-pop - a fair, fair distance away from the quick-pacing ferocity of their debut all that time ago. This week, we’re celebrating the release of Turnover’s fourth record Altogether, arriving via Run For Cover/Cooking Vinyl Australia today: Friday, November 1st. A three-track release the year following took them into a new direction followed on their acclaimed 2015 record Peripheral Vision, while on 2017’s Good Nature, things change again. Their debut, self-titled EP in 2011 is thick with the punchy guitar riffs of the world’s then-punk state, while their debut album two years later, Magnolia, shifts itself between the punk-rock ferocity that defined the band’s explosiveness and shadings of areas they’d come to later explore: dreamy shoegaze, emo-pop lyrical longing, subtle guitar-backed beginnings that hint at an indie-toned future before launching into the sound they were then-characteristic for. In the ten years since their formation, Turnover have presented many opportunities to change and evolve their sound - and that, they did. “No matter what mood you’re in, there’s a Turnover song to match it” may not be a popular saying, but at this point, it may as well be. In a way, this is because of Turnover’s gradual shift from a Virginia group classed amongst pop-punk’s rising stars to something so much more than that their experimentation and growth as an outfit meaning that not one release of theirs is like the other. Yet, Turnover have somehow always remained relevant across these long ten years of change, seemingly without trying to - something that can’t even be said for some of the biggest, highly-publicised popstars to blossom simultaneously to the band and their early work. In 2019, they celebrate their tenth anniversary as a band (and eight years since their debut, self-titled EP) - a decade in which the industry built around them has welcomed (and often, quickly farewelled) new technology and glimpses of viral, constantly-shifting trends. For a band with longevity like Turnover, change is inevitable.
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