Just last week, Turnstile announced Never Enough: Versions, a "reimagined" version of their gigantic 2025 album Never Enough. They kept the details on the album quiet while unveiling an absolutely baffling list of contributors that includes Elton John, Slayyyter, Hayley Williams, Blood Orange, Alex G, Dying Fetus, Julien Baker, Panda Bear, Oklou, Angel Du$t, and Dying Fetus. The album is here today, and it's a combination of covers, remixes, and hybrid remix/covers, with 22 different versions of songs from the original 14-track album. (This version of the album is also about two hours long, compared to the 45-minute original.)
The new versions of these songs cover a lot of ground. Consider "Birds," the euphoric singalong that's become Turnstile's live-show closer. Slayyyter turns that song into a bleary-eyed dance-pop banger that samples Brendan Yates' voice, while Dying Fetus transform it into pummeling death metal. It sounds really cool in both forms. Elton John plays piano over "Seein' Stars" and reworks the song into a mashed-up duet between himself and Yates; it's a fucking trip.
Porches, Blood Orange, Faye Webster, Hayley Wiliams, Alex G, and the team of Julien Baker and Mustafa offer up softer versions of Turnstile's originals, while Floating Points, Four Tet, and Kettama do straight-up dance remixes. Brandon Woody and Shabaka contribute jazz meditations on Turnstile's melodies. Chanel Beads' take on "Dull" starts out as a softer cover, but its tension keeps building. I really like what A. G. Cook does with the same track, hacking it up and putting it through electro-pop filters without losing the physical intensity.
There's some real Baltimore shit on here that I love. Angel Du$t, a band that used to share three members with Turnstile, do a euphoric hardcore version of "Sunshower." On the breakdown, Turnstile's big-bro figure Justice Tripp screams Turnstile's name like it was his own band. Dan Deacon psychedelic synth version of "Dreaming" pushes it into vocoderized Flaming Lips territory. I'm pretty much head-over-heels for Baltimore club great Rod Lee's club-rap take on "Never Enough," which reshapes the track into a party-time lament about people wanting too much shit from you. And Baltimore native Panda Bear also adds the "Think" breakbeat, the classic hallmark of Baltimore club, to "Magic Man," doing things I've just never heard Panda Bear do.
By its very nature, an album like this is always going to be wildly inconsistent, but this one hits a whole lot more often than not. I can't claim any kind of objectivity here, since I love Turnstile and truly enjoy seeing all the weird places where their songs can go. They've been messing around with the remix world since 2020, when they got Mall Grab to remix some Time & Space tracks on the Share A View EP, and this feels like that approach taken way past its logical endpoint. Dig into it below
In other news, Turnstile played a one-off show in the UK town of Halifax on Wednesday night, and it looked crazy.
Never Enough: Versions is out now on Roadrunner.
