Paramore‘s Hayley Williams joined Turnstile on stage for ‘Seein’ Stars’ during the encore of their album release show for roughly 9000 people at New York City’s Under The K Bridge Park.
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The show, which saw Turnstile play 24 songs, included their newly released track ‘Seein’ Stars’ in the encore, which Williams features in.
As the band began playing the song during the encore, the lights dimmed as Yates started the opening verse. Around a minute into the track, he shouted “Hayley!” before Williams appeared on stage to accompany Turnstile – and she was met with roaring cheers.
‘Seein’ Stars’, which also features guest vocals from Blood Orange’s Devonté Hynes, was released alongside ‘Birds’ back in April. Both songs were combined in a new video directed by the band’s own Brendan Yates and Pat McCrory.
Other tracks from the album, including ‘I CARE’ and ‘NEVER ENOUGH’, were played in the New York show.
Full setlist of Turnstile’s show at Under The K Bridge Park
‘NEVER ENOUGH’
‘T.L.C. (TURNSTILE LOVE CONNECTION)’
‘ENDLESS’
‘Come Back for More / Fazed Out’
‘Keep It Moving’
‘Pushing Me Away’
‘FLY AGAIN’
‘I CARE’
‘DULL’
‘DON’T PLAY’
‘Real Thing’
‘Big Smile’
‘Drop’
‘Interlude’
‘UNDERWATER BOI’
‘HOLIDAY’
‘ALIEN LOVE CALL’
‘LOOK OUT FOR ME’
‘MYSTERY’
‘BLACKOUT’
‘SEEIN’ STARS’
‘BIRDS’
NME awarded ‘Never Enough’ five stars in a review, commending it for being experimental while not straying too far from the Baltimore band’s hardcore roots. It reads: “Hardcore remains its lynchpin: the album rarely strays too far from a chunky, overdriven guitar, or one of vocalist Brendan Yates’ throat-splitting yells. Some moments are faithful nods back to their early work, like ‘Sole’ and ‘Birds’, conjuring images of a sweaty small-venue show like the one pictured on the cover of 2011’s ‘Pressure To Succeed’.”
It later concludes: “Combining a sentimental regard for various shades of rock with a focus on big, bright melodies (think of those sparkly synths backing the second pre-chorus vocal in the title track), and a free-wheeling approach to musical referents, the album constantly reaches out to the pop world: exploring how hardcore might form the basis for something technicolour, playful and accessible.
“That attitude towards the genre, as capable of mass appeal and ripe for experimentation, is what powers this excellent album.”
A week before the release of ‘Never Enough’, Turnstile spoke to NME about the making of the album and their music-making process. “In terms of avoiding or engaging with outside expectations, there was absolutely zero,” drummer Daniel Fang said. “Fortunately, we were never steered down a certain road: ‘Because ‘Glow On’ happened to be received this way, we need to recreate this or emulate that’. It all comes from the same place: does it actually resonate with us? Does it scratch the impulse to do something new and creative?
“I don’t know how anyone would have time or the bandwidth to manage outside expectations,” he added. “I don’t think any of us can even fathom that, because there’s an infinite well within everyone [in the band]… I don’t understand how anyone could be guided by that when there’s so much else to work off of.”
Turnstile will be headlining Outbreak Festival next week and will be making appearances at Primavera Sound and Glastonbury this month.
In other Hayley Williams-related news, she recently teamed up with Moses Sumney on a steamy and seductive new single, ‘I Like It I Like It’. The song is a psychedelic, sensual cut that sees both musicians duet over dreamy synths, a choir and dazzling keys.
Late last December, Williams teased the possibility of a string of solo shows in 2025, five years after she had originally planned them. The singer’s first solo studio album ‘Petals For Armor’ was released in May 2020 and Williams had intended to play the record live on a UK and European tour that month, before plans had to be shelved amid the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
