Criticizing a remix album for being inconsistent feels a bit like criticizing the beach for being too sandy. Of course it's annoying when sand gets in your underwear, but honestly what did you expect? Such is the case for NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS, and Turnstile aren't even trying to hide it. Why else would they open with the jarring one-too punch if Porches doing "NEVER ENOUGH" and Slayyyter doing "BIRDS" (the promise of the former undone by strangled whimpers and chords that clash with the melody, the latter a grating mashup of gothic synthpop and modem-glitching 2010 dubstep that sounds much better written down here than it does in practice). I was about ready to throw in the towel right then and there, but next comes Floating Points with a good ol' straightforward club remix of "SOLE," and the 22-song VERSIONS is off to the races. Seemingly taking inspiration from Brat and it's completely different but also still brat, it's somewhere between a remix album and a covers collection paying tribute to last year's NEVER ENOUGH — an anything-goes approach that's intentionally scattershot, prioritizing the contributors' stylistic imprint over Turnstile's. The sequencing is seemingly random, careening from dance to jazz to death growls to rap. My favourite of the bunch (Dan Deacon's euphoric "DREAMING," which crescendos with the manic rhythms of his 2007 album Spiderman of the Rings) is immediately followed by my least (Faye Webster singing in a skin-crawling baby voice on a lounge-y folk-jazz rendition of "I CARE"). The most faithful cover (Angel Du$t doing their own hardcore-goes-ambient run-through of "SUNSHOWER") is followed by Chanel Beads doing an avant-folk deconstruction of "DULL" that would be totally unrecognizable if it weren't for the sample of Brendan Yates howling the title lyric. A. G. Cook's classically remix-y electronic flip of the same song comes right before Hayley Williams reinventing the melody of "CEILING" for a jazzy slow-burn. Even when they're not always good, these covers and remixes are united by a common purpose: to reinforce that Turnstile are the biggest crossover success in hardcore. Of course Elton John sounds like shit when singing like a robot malfunctioning at the bottom of the ocean on "SEEIN' STARS," but you can hardly blame Turnstile for wanting to put one of the biggest pop stars of the '70s on their album, because what other hardcore band could possibly do that? NEVER ENOUGH: VERSIONS is a flex — and it frequently sounds great, but it's never a revelation. The original NEVER ENOUGH was already so adventurous and genre-busting that it's not surprising at all when these songs are successfully adapted by wildly different artists: Dying Fetus's death metal version of "BIRDS" sounds more or less like the original except sung by Cookie Monster (complimentary), while the dreamy dance thump of Four Tet's "LOOK OUT FOR ME" is wonderful but expected given that the original song already had a clubby outro. Oklou and Blood Orange each offer beautiful, ambient interpretations of "LIGHT DESIGN" that sound akin to what Turnstile already did on "SUNSHOWER" (right down to the new age flute on Blood Orange's). VERSIONS proves over and over again that nobody can beat Turnstile at their own genre-mashing game — but it's mostly a delight to hear them try.