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The Turnover from Virginia Beach were an honest band of melodic emocore craftsmen. Now they are one of those groups under Run For Cover that nobody really knows what they are or what they are doing.
If the melodies were catchy, if the drummer went tum-pa-tum-tum-pa with big fills, if the structures unfolded in two minutes of easy appeal; if there was even a hint of distortion, they would be a pop punk band.
If the guitars didn’t sound so bad as if they were straight-jacked into an audio card and then flavored with GarageBand reverbs; if there was just the right tremolo, a sprinkle of fuzz; if the voice wasn't so upfront with artificial reverb, with those idiotic harmonizations like in Like Slow Disappearing, they could try shoegaze.
If they made your feet tap a little, they would be some type of indie. If emotions were present, they would be emo.
If there was at least one song, just one, they would at least make sense.
However, it must be acknowledged that they don’t lack potential energy. Nor the nice t-shirts and cool caps.
The feeling is that Run For Cover has mobilized a great army of billy boys, good for endorsement by some bourgeois skater label. Bland bands that, if you listen to them, you're part of the scene, but then in reality "sing me a song" and there's immediate panic. Useless, boring, annoying.
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