Twenty-two reworks of Never Enough, a cast running from Elton John to Dying Fetus via Hayley Williams, Slayyyter, Blood Orange and Panda Bear: Never Enough: Versions is less an album than a show of power. The press signs off at 77/100 (3 reviews) — Kerrang! and Louder at 8/10, Clash at 7 — while the public, more circumspect, stops at 72/100 across 218 votes.
What unites: the audacity of the move and its peaks. Louder, comparing the project to Metallica’s Blacklist, hails « one of 2026’s boldest and most entertaining releases » and rules: « This is Turnstile’s world now; we’re just living in it. » Slayyyter’s electroclash « Birds », Elton John’s piano on « Seein’ Stars » and Dying Fetus’s death metal rework top everyone’s highlight list. Kerrang! sums up: « It’s weird, it’s wonderful, it’s exactly what Turnstile are all about. »
What divides: the very nature of the object. « By its very nature, an album like this is always going to be wildly inconsistent, » states Stereogum, which still finds it succeeds more often than not; Clash hears « a series of warped hybrids » to explore. Across twenty-two tracks everyone drops ballast — hence a public cooler than the press. 7.5: not an album, a flex. But what a flex.