Don't Get Too Close

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Is there anyone who loves making music more than Sonny Moore? Long after Skrillex had graduated to some of the world’s biggest festival stage, he could still be found DJing pretty much anywhere: basement club, house partie, hotel rooms—if there was a set of deck, chances are he’d be jumping on it. So perhaps it’s no surprise that just a day after unveiling <i>Quest for Fire</i>, his long-awaited follow-up to his 2014 debut album, <i>Recess</i>, he surprise-released <i>Don’t Get Too Close</i>, adding 12 more wildly varied tracks to <i>Quest</i>’s already deeply diverse 15. Only “Way Back,” a cottony jungle tune featuring PinkPantheress and Trippie Redd, and the title song, a melancholy collaboration with Norwegian producer Lido and German Haitian hitmaker Bibi Bourelly, were released before the album dropped. Their shared softness turns out to have been a harbinger of what to expect: <i>Don’t Get Too Close</i> is a largely low-key companion to the resolutely banging <i>Quest for Fire</i>. The beats are smoother, favoring slinky house, garage, and trap over hard-charging bass music, and Skrillex’s featured vocalists lean toward cloudy R&B and emo-rap vibe. It’s an altogether more muted affair than its immediate predecessor. .

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