Check My Ears
	(Infectious/CD)
	Mark Bayross

The latest in a line of one-word-name bands to make a bid for that rawk zone somewhere between Kerrang! and the NME, Turn's release of "Check My Ears" is a timely follow-up to their recent three-band tour with Seafood and Wilt. This mini-album is also rather handy in that it collects together the Irish quartet's three 7 "singles so far, "Facedown", "Beretta" and "Beeswax", along with their B-sides, all of which were limited to 500 copies. While the ragged power pop of "Beretta" is a satisfyingly attention-grabbing way of kicking off proceedings, the fragility of slower tracks like "Truth" and "Plan" are not well served by Ollie Cole's painfully flat vocals and a rather plodding lack of dynamism. However, Turn do redeem themselves somewhat with the reverb-heavy "Beeswax", although the quiet-verse-loud-chorus trick ain't exactly new. As a document of a guitar band's opening salvo on the music industry, this is as should be expected: three pretty strong A-sides and three unexceptional B-sides. It's early days for Turn - at the moment they are effective but half-formed. They get half the points, then...