- A twirling vocal hook with a gnarly dark garage instrumental.
- You can tell that vocalist Ell Murphy is also an experienced DJ, because "Turning," produced with Mani Festo, is such a pitch-perfect garage banger that it sounds like the vocal could have been sampled and chopped from some old forgotten record. But instead it's a bespoke performance from Murphy, whose voice floats and occasionally cartwheels over what starts off as a spunky 2-step beat. There are occasional dips into drum & bass via some overzealous break chopping and a huge Reese bassline that acts as both a strong foundation and a malevolent force threatening to upend everything, as Murphy's chorus hook—"It's better than you know"—burrows into your brain.
The best part is the breakdown, with incredible vocal runs from Murphy that seem designed to be sampled for other like-minded club tunes sometime far in the future. It's rare that an artist can feel so in dialogue with the past, present and future all at once, but that's what Murphy and Mani Festo accomplish on "Turning," a timeless and faithful love letter to the scenes and cultures it's referencing in the first place, from Shut Up And Dance all the way up to Keysound Recordings.