Turnover Shows its Changes at The Joy

Turnover’s Austin Getz at The Joy Theater, by Victoria Conway

The most recent shift presented the audience with some ambient disco to process.

Virginia Beach-born Turnover took to the Joy Theater stage recently with a nonchalant air. Following New Orleans-based openers Video Age, the four-piece band embodied the shoegaze-y sound of their most recent album, Myself in the Way, staring down at their instruments with heavy-lidded eyes. 

For Jefferson Parish natives Austin and Casey Getz, this was a homecoming show of sorts, shouting out family and loved ones in the audience. As they vacillated between new and old releases throughout their set, the differences in stylistic approach heard in their discography became evident. Opening with two tracks from their newest record, Myself in the Way, released a little more than a month prior to the show, the band set a tone that diverged significantly from the emo dreampop framework for which Turnover has made its name. The slow drawl of “Tears of Change” was more reminiscent of ambient Beach House than Turnover themselves, and “Myself in the Way” set the scene for an anachronistic discotheque. 

As they delved into their older tunes, the crowd followed tempo and began to move ever so slightly like atoms under heat. Playing hits from 2015’s Peripheral Vision and 2017’s Good Nature, the evolved band reminded the audience of the unmistakable languor at the heart of emo. Closing out their set with Turnover staples like “Dizzy on the Comedown” and “I Would Hate You If I Could,” the band released the mild-tempered crowd into the night.

Turnover’s Nick Rayfield in New Orleans, by Victoria Conway

Danny Dempsey of Turnover at the Joy, by Victoria Conway

Jefferson Parish’s Austin Gets with Turnover, by Victoria Conway