![]() Austin Getz's lyrics are imagistic, creative and daring. The record’s tunnel-vision for tortured intimacy is undeniable, sharing all the thematic hallmarks of pop-punk/emo bands such as Turnover’s label mates or rather the scene at large but I cant help but feel here it’s done differently. ![]() While there is something fundamentally American about Peripheral Vision, a hazy mid-west milieu I can only obliquely grasp at (there are shades of American Football here, I am certain), for me Peripheral Vision mapped perfectly onto the balmy nights of an Australian summer, the record somehow tapping into such memories of post-adolescent romanticism that coloured my life at the time. Some albums are inextricably linked to personal experiences times in one’s life that somehow a record hold the mnemonic keys to. It stands on the precipice between romantic hope and cathartic fantasy sunbathing in those sweet nothings from a girl in the crowd who you now can only access through memory. Threaded throughout Peripheral Vision are speculations on desire: what was a past relationship’s significance? Will being in love be enough for me? What does a new relationship portend to be? Grandfathered into the record’s fabric is an immediate sense of nostalgia - a longing for what was, what might’ve been, what might never be. It does not store any personal data.Review Summary: “it was one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turns out to be the pleasure itself.” -F. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. If this is what you like, then it is definitely worth a listen. This does not make Peripheral Vision a bad album. There are a few moments when the tempo will suddenly slow and the band goes into a Pavement-like slow jam, like on Take My Head. Or else the singer will make you think about the way you are living your life. There are some moments when the grooves will catch you. The instruments do not try and redefine genres by bending any established norms. There are no hidden messages that someone will find in here. On tracks like New Scream, Humming and Diazepam are clear and straight to the point. ![]() It is so nice to hear a singer who isn’t singing as if he or she is stoned or drunk. The vocals aren’t overwhelmed by the effects on the instruments and they sound refreshingly sober. The band have taken the emo ability to talk straight and express oneself clearly, whilst eliminating all of that self-pitying whining. It actually feels to me like Turnover on this album have grabbed the best parts of the older ’emo-rock’ tradition and the best parts of the current ‘hipster-reverb-drenched indie rock’ and smashed them together to form a solid pop-rock album. The track Hello Euphoria begins with “I feel thinner at the waistline/ I am getting older everyday there is a new line” Its an album about being in your early twenties. The emotional frustration is there, it is just a bit more subdued a bit more subtle. This is not to say that the themes from their previous sound do not come through on this newest LP. Their newest album, Peripheral Vision, takes a bit of a detour: the band has bought a reverb pedal! It is simple but emotional and easily understandable. Virginia’s Turnover have made a name for themselves as an unashamed emo-pop band with a sound that takes me back to be being fourteen and listening to Fall Out Boy and Panic at the Disco.
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