The first thing that catches the eye in Danny Dempsey’s Bushwick apartment is a collection of European alt-rock posters: The Stone Roses, Oasis, The Sugarcubes — the sort of gloomy bands one might associate with the early music released by Dempsey's band Turnover. Dempsey, frontman Austin Getz, and drummer Casey Getz all sport shoulder-length hair, thrifty clothes, disarming grins, and inexplicably West Coast dispositions for three East Coast natives. As we get coffee, I float between the three of them in casual conversation, chatting about moving out of our hometowns only to return and find the same people doing the same things.

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Austin explains how, a couple of years back, he moved from Turnover’s collective hometown of Virginia Beach to the middle of the Redwood Forest. He currently lives in a manufactured home an hour north of San Francisco; Casey (Austin's younger brother) had just arrived in Brooklyn after driving overnight from Virginia Beach on virtually no sleep. But he’s surprisingly chipper while talking about the mineral water diet he’s trying, as well as the $5,000 water filter his friend is subsequently trying to sell him on. “It’s not a Ponzi scheme,” he assures me.

Meanwhile, Dempsey’s focused on procuring fruits and veggies to make a batch of homemade juice. He’s only lived in Brooklyn for a couple of years, but he already walks New York fast, pointing out which coffee shops are hostile to his reusable thermos. He gestures to various streets where some of his musician friends live, and remarks how influential they’ve been on his personal taste and his playing on Turnover’s new album Altogether. The band and their touring guitarists — Nick Rayfield and Title Fight guitarist Shane Moran — are only in New York for a couple days to practice for their upcoming European tour. After writing the album from their own homes across the country and working out the kinks in a group chat, it will be the first time the band has played their new songs together in the same room. None of them seem particularly nervous about nailing the songs within the next few days.