2023 is in launching in main means within the dance world, with Skrillex asserting that he’s dropping a double album this 12 months.
On New 12 months’s Day (Jan. 1), the producer born Sonny Moore posted an announcement to social media studying “QFF/DGTC 23,” with the acronyms extensively understood to face for the names of a pair of albums coming in 2023. Then on Jan. 2, he posted a snippet of the challenge’s first single, “Rumble,” a sinewy, foreboding collaboration with Fred once more.. and UK grime MC Flowdan.
In response to the album information, the digital producer group responded in what’s most precisely described as rejoice. “2023 trying nice already,” wrote Tchami, with bass artists from Subtronics to Ray Volpe to Peekaboo to tk sprinkling in such responses as “HYPERVENTILATING,” “H O L Y S H I T B A L L S” and “i’m f—ing WEEPING.” Even Missy Elliot, with whom Skrillex collaborated on the unreleased 2018 monitor “ID,” chimed in, successfully summing up the joy with a sequence of alien head, flame and chef’s kiss emojis.
The albums will mark Skrillex’s first studio albums since his 2014 debut, Recess, which album peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 in April of 2014 within the apex of the EDM increase.
Skrillex has in fact been mega-prolific within the interim, profitable a pair of 2016 Grammys alongside Diplo of their duo Jack Ü — “Skrillex, he’s in all probability one of the best producer of digital music I’ve ever met him my life. He can flip something into something on his personal phrases, the man is the grasp,” Diplo informed Billboard in 2022.
Hear the 15 second preview of “Rumble” within the above video.
