Turnover - Good Nature (Full Album Stream)

The last album from Virginia-born band Turnover found a sweet spot between pop-punk and dream pop, but their influences are more sedate and smooth this time. Pop-punk and lush, lovelorn indie rock were enjoying a slow and steady undercover flirtation long before Turnover released their second LP in 2015, but Peripheral Vision was the one that took it public. Awkward reminders of their Warped Tour-friendly formative phase occasionally popped up, but that was OK: Peripheral Vision became a surprise hit because there were apparently plenty of other pop-punk kids who were transitioning towards shoegaze and dream pop, and they now had a band of this ilk to call their own. But on Turnover’s new album, Good Nature, getting on frontman Austin Getz’s level requires more than an updated vinyl collection. He turned vegan, moved with his girlfriend from Virginia Beach to California wine country, and made a record that sounds like he’d been there all along. “I found my religion/When nothing was ahead of us/That week in California,” Getz sighs on the starlit carousel ride “Super Natural.” It’s an extremely low-key way to begin an album, but it’s still a bold introduction if only in contrast to where he was two years ago with Peripheral Vision’s thrilling streaks of self-loathing, “Cutting My Fingers Off” and “New Scream.” Regardless of his current location, Good Nature is SoCal to the core, a warm embrace of the area’s soft-focus spirituality and the optimism of young, beautiful creatives without much to worry about. Read More