When flipturn first sparked to life in a high-school garage in 2015, the actʼs arc has been incandescent, so it has always felt deeply right that their latest track, “Burnout Days (feat. Old Mervs),” is an impassioned, contemplative rock song. This premiere is more than a listening experience, it’s a confession, a spark, a shared moment of breathlessness.
“Burnout Days” hits you with tight guitar lines and a downright in-your-face urgency. It’s as if each of those notes sat on the precipice of disaster and new creation at the same time. That magnetism that listeners succumbed to at Fernandina Beach? It’s in spades that chemistry cooked up in that initial garage rehearsal pulses in every beat.
They shoulder the title beautifully, with a weary, palpable weight, feet dragging, a burnout that’s lived, not faked. And yet, there are also pockets of resilience, embers glowing in the wake of a blaze. Old Merv’s contribution is more than a feature, it’s a counterpoint, a second voice, a breath, pushing the track beyond anything Flipturn might have drawn on their own. Together, they capture the push and pull, adrenaline and exhaustion, of burning bright until there’s nothing left but ashes.
“Burnout Days” doesn’t waste any time sugarcoating. It’s an image of unceasing days when the spark starts to fade. Yet instead of capitulation, the song turns inward, drawing strength from mutual fatigue. If flipturn has always been about magnetic energy, about what happens when a band rises from a small Florida island town to, yes, somewhere bigger, this collab is a new chapter.