After months of teasing and anticipation, Skrillex‘s fourth studio album, the astoundingly titled ‘F*CK U SKRILLEX YOU THINK UR ANDY WARHOL BUT UR NOT!! <3‘, is out now.
While the producer announced the project would be coming out today (April 1) only yesterday (March 31), its release also isn’t too much of a surprise, given recent posts indicating that it was in the works and then, as he posted on March 20, “done.”
The 34-track dubstep-forward LP features a long list of both new and frequent collaborators including Virtual Riot, Naisha, Whitearmor, jamesjamesjames, Parisi, Boys Noize, 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady, G Jones, ISOxo, G Jones, Bibi Bourelly, Starrah, Wuki, Space Laces, Swae Lee and more.
The album is a 46-minute continuous mix that plays like a very hyped radio station and ends with a long list of end credit thank yous, the final going out to “you, the fan, the listener, the supporter, the believer. Without you, none of this would have been possible. Thank you.” See the cover art and stream the album below.
The project comes two days after Skrillex headlined the mainstage at Ultra Music Festival for the first time since 2015, a peformance during which he played some of this new music, brought out special guests including Young Miko, Naisha, Flowdan and Damian Marley and played a bass edit of Avicii’s “Levels.”
This new album will presumably be Skrillex’s final project for his longtime label, Atlantic Records, given that in November he tweeted that ““I’ve never felt more inspired and in lockstep with my intentions as an artist. As I’m nearing completion of my next work and my final project for Atlantic Records I can’t help but feel very existential about it all.” (The majority of Skrillex’s releases have been through Atlantic subsidiaries, including Big Beat Records and Skrillex’s own OWSLA imprint, with the partnership going back to his 2010 debut EP Weekends!!!)
In November on X, Skrillex also referred to what seemed to this then unannounced project, saying, “I’m thrilled to get this out and focus on more release[s] in 25 as an ‘independent’ artist. But ‘independent’ is such a strange term because I still depend on my team as well as all the other creatives and executives to do what I do.”
The album is Skrillex’s first since 2023’s Quest For Fire, which he released on February 17, 2023, and Don’t Get Too Close, a surprise release that came the day after. (This day, February 18, 2023, was also when Skrillex headlined Madison Square Garden in New York alongside Four Tet and Fred again…)
This pair of albums marked Skrillex’s first full-length albums since his 2014 debut, Recess.
