This doesn’t hinder any means of the quality of the songs themselves, as mentioned previously, they just sound way too similar for me to find myself going back to all of them in re-listens besides my favorites that have resonated well with me. With the exception of “Cutting My Fingers Off,” “New Scream” and “Take My Hand,” most of the songs could be slashed into different parts and strung all together, and you would barely tell the difference. “Diazepam” sounds like an earlier demo of “I Would Hate You If I Could,” almost every song starts off with an airy riff that systematically leads into a drum fill into the entire band coming in. I feel a lot of listeners will have varying favorite tracks, merely because most of the songs sound exactly the same. The main hindrance seen from the album is not in its quality, but merely its quantity. With all of the highs Turnover reach with Peripheral Vision, unfortunately there are some lows that keep this album from being where it should be in my mind. With spring blooming, and summer on the horizon, I can’t think of a better album to blast while the windows are rolled down, re-claiming parts of the Earth that were long hibernating during this tired and grueling winter. Try getting those melodies out of your head, I dare you. The band also gets at its poppiest during “Dizzy On The Comedown,” a personal favorite of the album. Melodies are just as engraved as guitar lines, and the bridge of “Hello Euphoria” and chorus of “Humming” will have you singing along for days after listening. Riffs will sway in and out of the mix, returning to remain stuck in your head until long after the track has ended. Guitar lines find themselves overlapping often, but the care and crafting cultivated in these crosses is far above most of what the band has written before. The guitars are much more contained, provided by a new sense of patience and purpose. With Peripheral Vision Turnover has refined their songwriting techniques to make sure each track consists of little filler, and enrich the purpose of the music as meaningfully as possible. Tracks like “Humming” and “Hello Euphoria” bathe in bright sounds, all washed over a hum of air spinning through the background. Produced by band favorite Will Yip, Peripheral Vision is a stark departure from the band’s more straightforward rock sound. Turnover return with sophomore LP Peripheral Vision, creating a new sound for the band that is one of ambience, purity, and serenity.
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