Upcoming Releases

Virginian band Turnover announces their new album, Down On Earth, out May 29th. The culmination of what has become the longest wait between albums in their careers, Turnover’s new full-length represents a decidedly different approach to making and releasing a record for a band that’s known to consistently pursue new spaces for their sound to evolve. Releasing Down On Earth independently, the band decided to mine their own history for a fresh perspective, enlisting their longtime front-of-house engineer Zac Montez to produce the album and capture the nuances of their beloved live show on record for the first time.

Coinciding with the announcement, the band are sharing two new singles from their forthcoming sixth album, “Nightjar” and “I See You and Realize”. Both new tracks are dynamic examples of the band refining their distinct voices, informed by their experimentation into dream-pop, new wave and alternative rock. “Nightjar” is also accompanied by a new music video, directed by Ben Turok that finds the band shedding light on their home state with a video portrait of Virginia Beach.

Down On Earth is a synthesis of the various expansions of Turnover’s sound, allowing the album to piece itself together by collaboratively jamming out ideas, fragments and snapshots of their lives since 2022’s Myself in the Way that they brought into the studio. That experience of playing together and working songs into existence in the room freed the band from being constrained by a predetermined idea of what the new music should sound like, instead letting the essence of the album just come to fruition by playing and exuding the lessons and musical acumen they’ve each accrued over a decade-spanning career tinkering with music. 

The album invigorates the band’s recorded music with the energy they first explored when they broke onto the Virginia punk scene, colliding the sharpness of their years spent in those spaces into the music with the blissful psychedelia they explored with their previous two albums. Thematically, the album excavates a wider set of experiences, lessons and images that have come to Austin and the band in the four years since their last album, abstracting more general life happenings that speak to their perspective on love, death, loneliness and the afterlife. The album’s cover artwork, a photo by renowned photographer Nick Waplington that was chosen by the band, exemplifies some of those broader question with a photo to represent the album that asks some questions of its own:

"I wanted to use a photo because photos stay with me in a more familiar way. I also buy a lot of photo books and love to see a well known photographer working with musicians,” Turnover’s bassist Danny Dempsey says of the cover artwork choice. “I’ve been a big fan of Nick’s stuff and something that felt out of reach turned out to be easy and fun. The photo feels like it could be any time in history to me. Today. Tomorrow. 50 years ago. 50 years into the future. And I’m not sure if I want to be there or not. It just pulls me in. It’s a weird one"

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.

Down On Earth track listing:

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