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VICE Album Reviews, August 28: Turnstile, Tom Hardy, Prince and More

Just like the relentless march of time, the record release schedule hurtles unstoppably on with new albums from Trippie Redd, Saul Williams, LA Priest, and Dinosaur Jr.

By Adam Christopher Smith

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Music journalism is going to the wall, and places for sensible, well-informed, nuanced takes on the latest releases are dwindling. So we thought we might as well put the final nail in the coffin.

Read all of August’s album reviews here, here and here.

TurnstileNever Enough: VersionsRoadrunner RecordsThis new album of remixes, covers, and collaborations from Turnstile, the Baltimore band which has, perhaps regrettably, reconfigured our understanding of what hardcore is, comes on like a genre reveal party. They’ve pulled a genuinely deranged gang together: Slayyyter swapping those “brand new chanel$” for a pair of Converse All Stars, Four Tet chopping up his three-chord adolescence, and, at the age of 79, Elton John finally joining a youth crew. Getting 22 of your most talented friends to reimagine your songbook, fiddling about with all your stem files and lyric sheets, is a true test of the source material. And though, on the original record, Turnstile strays dangerously close to nu metal, Never Enough: Versions is a serious upgrade on the dismal efforts slopped out by the biggest alternative acts of the early 2000s—in fact, I absolutely prefer it to the original release.

Stripped of cowbell and detuned guitars, the melodies stand out defiantly, not least on Porches’ gentle rendition of the record’s title track. And Floating Points’s pulsating take on “Sole” goes—unironically—harder than anything Turnstile has put out in years. Sure, there are moments that you make question how much these disparate elements and influences truly belong together. Luckily, the tracks are ordered well, dear sweet Panda Bear is there to play peacekeeper, showing up to stop Dying Fetus ritualistically........

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