‘Never Enough’: How Turnstile revolutionised the remix album
Turnstile have released Never Enough: Versions, a reworking of their 2025 album Never Enough that gathers an unusually eclectic array of collaborators, from death metal act Dying Fetus to Elton John, to reinterpret the record's songs. The article argues the 22-track project pushes the remix album beyond its usual limits, using genre-spanning contributions to show that a body of work can be reshaped without losing its original intent, drawing a comparison to Charli XCX's Brat remix release.
Highlights include Dying Fetus turning "Birds" into a harsher, more aggressive track, while Elton John adds piano to "Seein' Stars" alongside vocalist Brendan Yates. Slayyyter blends hardcore with electroclash on her version of "Birds", Dan Deacon transforms "Dreaming" into a synth-driven, slower piece, and Faye Webster reworks "I Care" as an acoustic ballad, alongside returning contributors Blood Orange and Hayley Williams. The piece also situates the project within the success of Turnstile's 2021 album Glow On and the accompanying Never Enough film co-directed by Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory.
- Turnstile release wide-ranging remix album Never Enough: Versions with 22 tracks.
- Collaborators span Elton John, Dying Fetus, Slayyyter, Dan Deacon and Faye Webster.
- Album reworks 2025's Never Enough, echoing Charli XCX's Brat remix approach.
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Turnstile are an American hardcore punk band whose 2025 album Never Enough built on the success of their acclaimed 2021 record Glow On, which helped push the band beyond hardcore's usual audience. The band's frontman, Brendan Yates, and guitarist Pat McCrory also co-directed a film tied to the album's release.
Never Enough: Versions is a companion remix album, on which 22 different artists rework tracks from the original record. The list of contributors spans wildly different genres, taking in death metal musicians, pop and electronic artists, and the veteran musician Elton John, which is unusual for a remix project of this kind.
Remix albums typically reinterpret a record's sound using a narrow set of collaborators from a similar musical world. This release is being discussed partly because of how far it departs from that norm, drawing comparisons to Charli XCX's Brat remix album as another example of an artist inviting a broad range of outside voices to reshape an existing body of work.