Meanwhile, Bohm’s impassioned screams were powerful to witness, with a stage presence to match. Frequent tempo shifts and a consistently manic pace helped demonstrate each member’s mastery of their instrument. Elliot Babin is an absolute force of nature on the drums, delivering fill after killer fill while keeping the band together as they chugged and soloed away. This was greeted by huge cheers and probably more than a few tears.Įverything about Touché Amoré’s set was on-point. About halfway through the set, Bohm delivered a short “personal note” on the importance of playing in Perth, with their last show on our shores being the first after the death of his mother (the topic of their exceptional latest record Stage Four, one of our albums of the year in 2016). Vocalist Jeremy Bohm frequently handed the microphone to fans to scream lyrics into, while occasionally embracing or grasping the hands of ecstatic viewers which was exactly as cathartic as you’d imagine. Just as you’d expect, Touché’s set was an energised and formidable display of expert musicianship, with a palpable bond between the audience and performers. Filled with slick guitar riffs and a tight rhythm section, the group played largely from their latest album (2015’s excellent Peripheral Vision), plus treating the audience to new single “Super Natural”, earning a warm reception from an appreciative audience.Įntering on stage to the sounds of Daniel Johnston of all people (I think), Touché Amoré were immediately firing on all cylinders, with “Flowers and You”, “~” and “New Halloween” immaculately setting the stage for what was to come. Following were Turnover, whose melodic soundscapes were the perfect balm for the heavier acts they were sandwiched between. Bringing the Violent Soho and Love Junkies-esque vibes to the opening roster (the latter of whom was championed by one member via t-shirt), the band performed well as a unit and delivered an energised set that captivated me enough to check out their catalogue (note: it’s good). Glass Wave ensured the night got off to a good start. The night promised a diverse line-up, with 90s grunge courtesy of local lads Glass Wave, indie rock from Turnover, and post-hardcore courtesy of the inimitable headliners Touché Amoré. As admitted on celebrative album closer ‘Bonnie (Rhythm & Melody)’, “It sounds like it feels.It was a packed crowd that filed into Amplifier Capitol on the night of the 12th of July, grateful to escape the bucketing rain outside. Where 2015’s aqueous installment slowly disappeared into a fog of dissolution and insecurity, ‘Good Nature’s optimism screams so loudly that it struggles to hide. The air is thin on well-meaning lead-single ‘Super Natural’ – marrying moments of confusion and clarity on a heady bed of melody, but although predominantly forward-thinking, Getz flirts with nihilism and self-destruction on ‘Good Nature’ – questioning reality and the walls built-up by age-old habits, only to be knocked down by the presence of a “sunshine type”.Īlthough sickly-sweet at times, “If you wanted to go a different way, then I’d give you whatever you need,” sings Getz on ‘Pure Devotion’, ‘Good Nature’ is an elemental force – defiantly bright in the wake of ‘Peripheral Vision’s prominent veins of dizzying self-loathing, as if Getz is now able to draw propellant influence from soft-focus simplicity as opposed to seismic heartache. “I tried,” is acceptingly painted all over the wild tropics of the song, and with the line “I’m leaving tomorrow”, the past is quietly released. Getz finds cloud-company in Julia on ‘What Got in The Way?’ – wandering wonder and swallowing questions of dreams and barriers. Starlit bridges create a constellation of the Virginia Beach three–piece’s third effort – ambience humming beneath and between each track, keeping you airborne within a wide-view exploration of a feeling that Getz brands “hard to explain”: the meditative acceptance of all things – gifted by the ebb and flow of new-found love. Hyper- confessional meditations on sex, obsession, and loss ran through the self-crucifying offering, but where Turnover sour ced ‘Peripheral Vision’s strength from yesterday’s glow, their latest long-player in ‘Good Nature’ sees the wilting, dream-pop bouquet finding harmony in the garden of remains. “I always remember things better than t hey were and miss people more than I should,” explains Austin Get z, fr ontman of amber-drunk sun-seekers Turnover, when speaking of the m ournful thinking behi nd the band’s fractured, Will Yip-prod uced breakthrough ‘Peripheral Vision’. TURNOVER Official| Facebook| Twitter| Bandcamp
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