TURNOVER ARE FINDING NEW FREEDOM IN THEIR OWN SOUND / THE BOMB FACTORY / 11.6.26
Following a year spent celebrating their influential album Peripheral Vision, Virginia’s Turnover return with Down on Earth, a record that brings their musical experiments into sharper focus.
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They arrive at The Bomb Factory in Dallas alongside NOTHING and Fort Worth’s Trauma Ray. For a band whose breakthrough record became a defining influence on an entire generation of atmospheric guitar music, Turnover have shown remarkably little interest in remaining inside the sound that made them famous.
Their 2015 album Peripheral Vision transformed the Virginia Beach group from their pop-punk beginnings into something far more atmospheric, built around shimmering guitars, understated melodies and a particular kind of emotional distance. Songs like “Dizzy on the Comedown” and “Humming” helped establish a musical identity that would influence countless artists in the years that followed.
Yet Turnover have spent much of their time since discovering what else that identity might accommodate. Good Nature introduced warmer textures and more expansive arrangements, while Altogether and Myself in the Way explored everything from psychedelia and jazz to electronic rhythms and dance music.
Their sixth album, Down on Earth, released independently in May 2026, brings those different experiences together through a particularly interesting change in how the band works
Rather than arriving at the studio with fully developed songs, Austin and Casey Getz, Danny Dempsey and Nick Rayfield began with fragments of ideas, allowing arrangements to develop through playing together. Longtime live sound engineer Zac Montez took on production duties, helping capture something closer to the band’s natural chemistry onstage.
The results are wonderfully varied. “Nightjar” moves through hazy guitars and an almost weightless sense of melody, while “I See You and Realize” finds beauty in the meeting of intimate songwriting and expansive production. Elsewhere, the record embraces more restless rhythms, distorted textures and moments of unexpected melodic clarity.
There’s something particularly interesting about the timing. Having spent much of 2025 celebrating the tenth anniversary of Peripheral Vision, Turnover emerged from revisiting those songs with a renewed sense of what made their musical relationship work in the first place. Down on Earth feels informed by that experience without attempting to reproduce it.
Their Dallas performance also brings together an exceptionally strong supporting lineup. Philadelphia’s NOTHING arrive with their 2026 album A Short History of Decay, continuing their exploration of shoegaze’s heavier and more emotionally exposed possibilities, while Fort Worth’s trauma ray bring the densely layered guitars and enveloping melodies that have made them one of North Texas’s most exciting alternative bands.
It’s a lineup that connects three different approaches to atmospheric guitar music, from Turnover’s increasingly expansive songwriting to NOTHING’s immense walls of sound and trauma ray’s ability to find fragile melodies within overwhelming distortion.
For Turnover, the evening offers an opportunity to hear how the songs of Down on Earth sit alongside the music that brought them here, and how those familiar arrangements might continue changing in the hands of the musicians who created them.
