Genre-bending hardcore visionaries Turnstile have just dropped a striking double music video for two new tracks, “Seein’ Stars” and “Birds,” from their upcoming album Never Enough, out June 6, 2025, via Roadrunner Records.
Directed by vocalist Brendan Yates and guitarist Pat McCrory, the video package is a sensory-rich journey that blurs the lines between dreamlike intimacy and explosive kinetic energy—much like Turnstile’s sound itself. The band’s trademark fusion of punk, funk, alt-pop, and soul continues to expand, and here, it does so in ways both graceful and intense.
“Seein’ Stars’ is a soaring, groove-laden track that captures Turnstile at their most radiant and refined. From the first shimmering synth textures, there’s a sense that we’re floating—not moshing—into new emotional territory. The song opens with a dreamy lilt before kicking into a hypnotic beat that pulses with subtle urgency.
Guest vocals from Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange) and Hayley Williams (Paramore) add texture without overpowering the band’s core DNA. Hynes airy falsetto interlocks with Williams’s rich, emotive tone, offering a yin-yang of vulnerability and strength. Brendan Yates delivers a restrained yet deeply felt vocal, straddling melodic clarity and post-hardcore grit. The chorus evokes both wonder and longing, suggesting a spiritual disconnection or emotional drift. Then, the guitar solo swipes across the surface with theatricality that engrosses the listener back into the instrumental tracking for the remainder of the song.
Thematically, “Seein’ Stars” explores love or connection as something beautiful yet unreachable—like a constellation admired but never touched. Musically, the track echoes the cosmic punk of GLOW ON but with even more spaciousness. It’s Turnstile’s most beautiful song to date—and that’s saying something.
Where “Seein’ Stars’ levitates, “Birds” dives with visceral propulsion. The track reasserts Turnstile’s punk and hardcore roots, but refracted through the band’s ever-expanding lens. It’s fuzzed-out, jagged, and explosive, but coated in delay and distortion like a sonic mirage.
Pat McCrory’s guitar tones are gritty and spacious, cutting through Daniel Fang’s tight, almost militaristic drumming. The lyrics are cryptic and sparse, creating a tension between freedom and inertia.
In just under two and a half minutes, “Birds” packs a feral punch that leaves room for introspection. The music video reflects that with frenetic cuts and a color palette that mutates between washed-out 16mm warmth and stark grayscale. It feels like the opposite side of the coin from “Seein’ Stars”—a grounded chaos compared to astral wonder.
Never Enough marks Turnstile’s first full-length album since 2021’s GLOW ON, which earned them four Grammy nominations and cemented their position as genre-defiers in the modern rock landscape. This new LP, produced by frontman Brendan Yates, was recorded in both Los Angeles and their hometown of Baltimore. The result, by all early accounts, is a fearless continuation of the band’s evolution—an emotional and sonic exhale after years of being on the cultural and creative edge.
To celebrate the release, Turnstile will host a special show on June 5 under the K Bridge in Brooklyn, New York, joined by genre-blending boundary pushers Teezo Touchdown, darkwave duo Boy Harsher, and rap icon Big Boi.
They’ll then hit major European festivals including Primavera Sound, Outbreak Fest, and Glastonbury, followed by North American appearances at Ottawa Blues, Aftershock, and III Points Miami.
For tickets and tour updates, visit turnstilehardcore.com.
With “Seein’ Stars” and “Birds,” Turnstile doesn’t just tease a new record—they invite us into a new dimension. These tracks feel like emotional opposites but thematic twins: one looking skyward in wonder, the other rooted in the reality of stillness. It’s that tension—between chaos and clarity, aggression and beauty—that makes Turnstile one of the most vital bands in the world right now.

Never Enough is coming June 6. But for now, these two tracks offer a rich preview of a band still in motion, still evolving—and never satisfied.

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