Turnstile – Never Enough review

There’s a lot of noise around Turnstile, so if you don’t want to read much further, the headline in front of Never Enough is that an ostensibly hardcore band have made what will undoubtedly prove to be one of the year’s best pop (In it’s broadest sense) albums.

Before getting chased round the four corners of the internet by their army of Stans, this is all fine. There’s obviously no point adhering slavishly in 2025 to rules that were made up largely on the fly almost fifty years ago, not least of which because nobody with a clue wants their music preserved like some kind of exhibit, with things just the way pops remembers them.

Their fourth album, Never Enough continues a process of new horizon seeking that began on their second Time & Space, the towering, titular opener alternating between puppy eyed synths and Doberman riffs. Old fans will love the stage dive friendly Birds, Dreaming and Sole, but it’s in Look Out For Me’s drifting ambience and the chirpy eighties pop of I Care that the curve balls are gleefully slung. Sunshower gives everyone the best of both worlds, but Turnstile feel like they’re outgrowing this place already, and what happens next is fun to try and work out.

You can read a full review here.