Quest For Fire

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His debut album ‘Recess’ arrived in 2014, and while releases have been steady, a full collection has been elusive. Created between LA and Japan over three years, this long-awaited second album is feverishly hyped, and he enlists megastars present and past, as if to prove his pop cultural impact is no less relevant than it was last time around. The album "Quest For Fire" by Skrillex was released by Atlantic Records. This highly anticipated album showcases Skrillex's signature blend of electronic and dubstep music, creating a unique and captivating listening experience. Quest for Fire is a huge evolution from the brash, stadium-sized ragers of Skrillex 1.0. He’s finally absorbed the fundamentals of dance music: basic stuff, like having a rhythm that makes you want to move your body. Everything rolls along like it’s actually going somewhere—not a flatulent dubstep waddle, but an aerodynamic gallop that brings to mind a deeper lineage of loud and obnoxious dance music, from the technical end of drum’n’bass to “proper” dubstep, Northern bassline, and Chicago juke. hand numbered CDrs were given away by Skrillex at the "Four Tet - Fred again.. - Skrillex" show on Thursday 16th February 2023 at Le Poisson Rouge in New York.

Skrillex arrived on the music scene in the early aughts fronting the post-hardcore band From First to Last and also released music under his birth name, Sonny Moore. He music turned electronic with his 2010 debut EP as Skrillex, My Name is Skrillex. Don’t Get Too Close, the more adventurous but marginally less successful of the two, scores the interior world of our hero’s adventure in a very-now merger of emo, rap, J-pop, memecore, video game music, and angsty boy-girl duets. Again, guests on every available surface: old bud Justin Bieber, rappers Chief Keef, Kid Cudi, and Swae Lee, and viral pop arrivals PinkPantheress and Prentiss. In the last decade he’s worked with industry giants ( Diplo, Ed Sheeran) and edge-curious artists ( Vic Mensa, Kelsey Lu), scored a Harmony Korine movie ( Spring Breakers), briefly reunited with his old screamo band From First to Last, collaborated with Japanese megastar Hikaru Utada for the whimsical RPG Kingdom Hearts III, and somehow released a song with the surviving members of the Doors (“Break’n a Sweat”). Yet he hasn’t put out a solo album since 2014’s Recess, and by his own account, the last few years have been tough.Skrillex has been on a sonic adventure, alright. The title of his long-awaited second album, ‘Quest For Fire’, reflects the journey that Sonny Moore has ventured on in the decade since the dubstep scene-leader dropped his game-changing ‘Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites’ EP in 2010. In the period that followed, he’s worked with everyone from Diplo and Justin Bieber to J Balvin and Ed Sheeran. The snobby response wasn’t just about the money, the perceived inauthenticity, or that EDM was such a straight, white, and male phenomenon. It was very much also about the music: the fairground drops, the skrrr-eechy synth leads, the idiotic samples, all the ways a bassline can be compared to an unwell digestive system. But Skrillex was the master of brostep, a technical wizard, and the most imaginative of the new breed of festival behemoths. Before EDM’s billion-dollar bubble burst, he’d hopped to safety in pop’s upper tier.

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