Turnstile
Never Enough
Release Date: Jun 6, 2025
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Roadrunner Records
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Album Review: Never Enough by Turnstile
Great, Based on 8 Critics
Based on rating 9/10
Collectively, it feels like the industry and some haters were simply waiting for the other shoe to drop. How can they possibly maintain this momentum? Are they not just diluting the scene and selling out? Doesn't it all just sound like more of the same? The questions swirled around online, but ultimately disappeared into the ether of the Internet. The fatal flaw was in failing to understand a band whose motivations are pure.
Based on rating 8.5/10
NEVER ENOUGH sees this Baltimore five-piece push the expansive sound of 2021's GLOW ON to new heights, embellishing Turnstile's hardcore roots with synth, drone, New Wave, pop punk, and mercilessly massive riffs. This record could well be the one that bags Turnstile that long-overdue Grammy. Which might be anathema to the most hardcore of U.S. hardcore fans.
Based on rating 8/10
To get the obvious out of the way, NEVER ENOUGH doesn't sound much like any hardcore record you'll hear this year. Although Turnstile came up in Baltimore's thriving scene and their roots in the genre run deep, as hardcore has exploded in popularity in the past few years Turnstile has steered clear of its most aggressive signifiers. They have spun off into a lane of their own and tempered their sound with a dreamy indie undercurrent, culminating in the massive success of their 2021 album GLOW ON.
Based on rating 4/5
Turnstile's hardcore, right now, is less a question of genre and more an assertion of community. Following up Glow On, one of the most thrilling rock releases of the decade so far, they once again attempt to push the boundaries of what a hardcore band can sound like, can be. Purists will scowl, millions will lap it up. If it makes you feel alive, they're happy to provide.
Based on rating 2.5/5
more ass than SteakByrnes' ass The year is twenty-five of twenty, the world is dying, and Walmart's favourite breakthrough act is back with a rock LP bloodless enough that it made Alexis Petridis' album of the week. In a sour reminder that, however many times you write it off, irony will never die quite as hard as punk, this unfortunate record is titled Never Enough. Now, some of the album's tedious qualities are shared with its arena-sweeping predecessor Glow On - frontman Brendan Yates' starched out drawl, the band's affected frat-punk poppishness, their overuse of predictable grooves - but this latest album distinguishes itself through sheer indulgence, for better and (mainly) worse.
Opinion: Absolutly essential
When Baltimore quintet Turnstile heralded their return earlier this year with the phenomenal title track from this fourth album, it was impossible not to take its opening bars as the deep breath before the plunge. Ushered in with the same dreamy, pastel-hued synths and echoed vocals that helped to define its predecessor (2021's Grammy-nominated 'GLOW ON'), the build of 'NEVER ENOUGH' to a humongous, stadium-sized juggernaut of a track is intensely satisfying in many senses, and not just because it feels to epitomise the band's talent for walking the tightrope between heft and lightness with such precision. In many ways, it's this spirit - the leaping between an intimate knowledge of their heavy roots and a continued appetite for experimental pursuits - that makes this fourth album such a vital, exhilarating offering, sure to catapult them further out of the hardcore scene and ever closer to mainstream musical lore.
Opinion: Excellent
On Saturday, May 10th, Baltimore natives and hardcore royalty Turnstile descended on Wyman Park Dell , performing for the first time in nearly two years with a show which was also arranged in support of Health Care For The Homeless. It raised over fifty thousand dollars for the cause, while also reasserting them as modern heroes of the scene. Their last stint had them touring arenas with blink-182.
Opinion: Fairly Good
Turnstile is leaning in. With their fourth studio album, Never Enough, the Baltimore hardcore band aims to take the visceral immediacy that made their 2021 breakthrough, Glow On, so magnetic and blow it up to an even bigger scale. The album is at its strongest when it leans into anthemic stadium rock, like "Sola," with its psychedelic synth passages and a soaring refrain that feels tailor-made for arena singalongs, and "Dreaming," which amplifies its triumphant energy by putting an unexpected twist on the Turnstile template: horns.
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