Skrillex – Quest For Fire

Review

Buckle your seatbelt—the bass tornado called "Quest For Fire" is here, and Skrillex is gleefully torching old genre lines just for fun. This firecracker of an album dropped February 17, 2023, and marks Skrillex’s return to full-length madness since "Recess" lit up speakers in 2014. Left turns abound: one second you’re ricocheting through dubstep dungeons, the next you’re two-stepping under neon garage lights or sidestepping wild Chicago juke beats. Star-studded? Oh, absolutely—imagine Fred Again..., Flowdan, Aluna, Swae Lee, Four Tet, Missy Elliott, and about half the phonebook of innovative clubland geniuses crashing Skrillex’s sonic party.

“Rumble,” the Grammy-snatching tsunami with Fred Again... and Flowdan, detonates right in the middle of the chaos—proof absolute that Skrillex doesn’t do boring or boundaries. There’s method in the madness, too: waves of adrenaline-grenade drops, but peppered with jaw-dropping little atmospheric detours that make you want to hit repeat just to catch the cleverness you missed. Skrillex throws authenticity and experimentation together into the same explosive test tube, and "Quest For Fire" emerges as a fever-dream dancefloor scrapbook—committed to shaking up the club, the culture, and whatever expectations you thought you had. Keep your glowsticks close and your mind open. - Romy