Turnstile

“Look Out for Me”
Release Date: May 20, 2025
Never Enough (Roadrunner Records)
Release Date: June 6, 2025
by Scott Deckman

Baltimore’s Turnstile is marketed as hardcore, so I thought I’d listen, especially since the group is getting some late-night pub; the band was just featured on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. An extensive listen to their back catalogue shows the band’s HC bona fides, if a little nü; they are from this century, after all. Thing is, on three out of four songs released ahead of album Never Enough, including “Look Out for Me,” Turnstile hardly sound hardcore. This will undoubtedly get the “sell-out” crowd chirping, if that same coterie didn’t already howl at 2021’s more diverse Glow On. While “Look Out for Me” does have its (fleeting) moments of ripping, processed-sounding guitar, this is glossed-up, radio-friendly stuff. It’s dancy, electronic-fused pop that’s catchy, with an extended (almost four-minute) synth coda recalling the chiller moments of Big Audio Dynamite II’s The Globe. The whistling is choice, too. Some of “Look Out for Me” is generic, some of it is novel. 

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