SPELLLING Teams Up with Turnstile’s Brendan Yates for New Take on “Portrait of My Heart”

The original version was the title track of SPELLLING’s 2025 LP.

SPELLLING Teams Up with Turnstile’s Brendan Yates for New Take on “Portrait of My Heart”

The original version was the title track of SPELLLING’s 2025 LP.

Words: Will Schube

Photo: Trevor Roberts

January 21, 2026

SPELLLING has shared a new version of the title track from her 2025 LP Portrait of My Heart. This updated rendition features none other than Turnstile’s Brendan Yates. Back in November, SPELLLING recruited Weyes Blood for a remixed version of another Portrait track, “Destiny Arrives.”

Regarding the Yates-assisted take on “Portrait,” SPELLLING said: “I was really happy to discover that Brendan was into SPELLLING when I saw him speaking about The Turning Wheel being his album of the year on NPR’s ‘faves on faves’. It’s the most fun and affirming aspect of making music for me, finding out my favorite artists are also attuned to what I’m making. Turnstile brought me out to play some shows with them in 2022 and during a soundcheck I heard Brendan playfully singing ‘I hate the boys at school’. That planted the seed in my mind that a collaboration would work really well. Having him sing on this ‘Portrait of my Heart’ remix was such a cool way to capture our radically different but mutually appreciated musical expressions.”

Check out this new version of “Portrait of My Heart” below.