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SOUNDS LIKE:A Nineties indie
dream with a punk rock heart
FOR FANS OF: Death Cab For
Cutie, Alvvays, Wild Nothing
WHY YOU SHOULD PAY ATTEN-
TION: Turnover singer-guitarist
Austin Getz remembers the mo-
ment he was fi rst bitten by the
music bug. “I was in the car on
my way to school, I was in fi rst
grade, and ‘All the Small Things’
by Blink-182 came on, and I’d
never been aff ected by anything
like it.”
Fast forward to the end of
high school, and Getz and his
family have moved from New
Orleans to Virginia, and that fi rst
taste of punk rock has turned
into an obsession.With brother and drum-
mer Casey and bassist Danny
Dempsey, Getz formed Turnover
as a 16-year-old in 2009 (his
brother was 14), and by 2012
they’d hit the road hard. “We
were a broken record for a long
time,” he says. “‘Oh yeah! We’ll
do a seven-week tour in the sum-
mer! We’ll do a four-week tour
in the winter, in a van making no
money!’”
2013 debut album Magnolia
stayed true to their DIY emo-
punk roots, but their break-
through came when they eased
off the distortion in favour of
lusher, dreamier, indie fl avours
on 2015’s Peripheral Vision,
introducing them to a broaderaudience in the process. The
“very transformative” period that
came with the success of the
record was one of the main infl u-
ences on Turnover’s new album,
this month’s Good Nature, a
record that continues the band’s
love aff air with chiming, inter-
twined guitars and driving indie
rhythms, combined with Getz’s
searching lyrics. Experimenta-
tion with LSD and mushrooms
around the launch of Peripheral
Vision “started triggering certain
new... thoughts”, forcing him to
challenge much of what he was
brought up believing. “I think for
the next couple of years I spent
a lot of time trying to fi gure
that stuff out, and [on the newalbum] there are a lot of songs
based around that.”
THEY SAY: “I think musicians
have a platform, and it is some-
thing that’s so intimate to a lot
of people, and I just didn’t want
to write songs about nothing
anymore,” says Getz of the new
LP. “I wanted to be like, people
are going to be listening to this,
and this is the energy I want to
put out into the world. I want it
to be something I feel passion-
ate about. So I tried to imbue
everything I was feeling into the
songs.”
HEAR FOR YOURSELF: The ear-
wormy “Supernatural” channels
the sound of a blissful summer’s
day. ROD YATESTu r n o v e r