Turnover’s sixth release Down On Earth feels like an album created in the moment. The songs appear unencumbered by intent and untethered by pretense. Yet, they are thoughtful and sublime.
“I do a wheelie for no one; imagining I have jet engines blasting me into oblivion” sings frontman Austin Getz on the opening track “Wheelie For No One” through vocal effects that sound uncanny, with warped airy guitars to match the lyrical imagery and vocals on this whimsical number. 
The rest of the album is relatively more grounded, although it shares the former song’s weightlessness, with gentle guitars and playful lyrical vignettes that are as esoteric as they are earthly: “A ladybug flew in my eye; it hurt like hell but I didn’t cry” (“Nightjar”): "I’m old enough to know that life’s too short to be wasting my time” (“My Hand Is A Curtain”); “Yeah I am still dumb, yeah I am a genius, giant step my way to the moon, ready to get huge” (“I’m Up, I’m Up”); “I know what it’s like to run for miles and not go anywhere, but I still don’t want to stop” (“Spade Head”). The album has a sense of peace and calm, as if it is meant to be listened to on a nighttime drive. For example, the “shoegaze” guitar feedback on “Little Bees Don’t Bite” or “I’m Up, I’m Up” are more serene than noisy.
This Virginia Beach outfit has been playing around with different musical styles on most of its records. Although this album is without the glamour of synths or fancier instrumentation, it is by far Turnover ‘s best effort. The band shows great maturity in its low-key guitar-based sound that is less hooky and more contemplative.
In a way, Down On Earth is a continuation of the group’s beloved 2015 release Peripheral Vision. This album not only shares the prior record’s atmospheric, dream pop sound, it further refines the sound, with wisdom that the band has accumulated in the past decade. But Down On Earth is not simply “Peripheral Vision with grey hair.” It is a pivotal record in its own right and a cut above everything that Turnover have released thus far…including Peripheral Vision.