TURNOVER RELEASES NEW ALBUM DOWN ON EARTH

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Photo by Sean McDonald

Virginian band Turnover releases their new album, Down On Earth. The band’s sixth full-length is being released independently for the first time in their decade-spanning career and includes lead singles ‘Nightjar‘, ‘I See You And Realize‘ and ‘I’m Up I’m Up‘, which was released earlier this week with an accompanying music video as the album’s final early offering. LISTEN HERE.

Down On Earth is a foundational shift for Turnover. It’s an evolution encompassing fragments of the various sounds and scenes they’ve cut their teeth in over their decade-spanning career. Honed in with the help of their longtime front of house engineer Zac MontezTurnover sought out to and succeeded in capturing the essence of their renowned live show to Down On Earth. The album is also the most collaborative in their discography. The band reconvened after 2022’s Myself in the Way and took their time, utilising the course of four years to hammer out the shape of their new album in the room together, iterating and improvising on ideas, experiences, riffs, and stray lyrics that each member brought to those sessions from lived experiences and life changes over that span. The album’s cover artwork, a photo by renowned photographer Nick Waplington that was chosen by the band, exemplifies some of those broader questions with a photo that’s open-ended and presents questions of its own about human experience and the perspective the beholder brings.

We never had conversations about the kind of record we should make,” frontman Austin Getz says. “Maybe reminiscing around the anniversary seeped into our subconscious. But at its core, Down On Earth was the experience of just seeing what happened when we played together, without holding on to a tight idea of what we wanted it to be.”

There’s a brimming confidence to the new album that could only come from the freedom of closing a chapter of their lives and opening a new one. Following the natural retrospection that came with their 2025 Peripheral Vision 10th Anniversary Tour that saw the band play the biggest venues of their careers, the band have found a sense of resolve in their ability to be unequivocally themselves and reach people with that earnestness. While that may not equate directly to any one scene, Turnover have fought through the growing pains of self-discovery and come out on the other side with a seismic new album that writes a new script for the band moving forward.

Turnover will also be embarking on a North American tour this Summer with Narrowhead and She’s Green, beginning June 3rd in Allentown. The band will also play festival sets at Governor’s Ball and Bonnaroo in June, and join Coheed and Cambria for a special show at Red Rocks in September ahead of their Neverender Festival in Santa Ana on October 3rd. For all live dates and details, see HERE.

Down On Earth is out now, buy/stream it here.

TRACKLIST
1. Wheelie For No One
2. Nightjar
3. I See You And Realize
4. My Hand is a Curtain
5. I’m Up, I’m Up
6. Pieces
7. Little Bees Don’t Bite
8. Ultrasensitive
9. Off Into the Lonesome Sky
10. Spade Head

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