Skrillex
Recess

Intelligent electronic music pretending to be idiotic electronic music.

This is the most suitable expression to describe Skrillex's first album.

After years of creating and shaping the rather "ignorant" (sub)genre of Brostep, which is the most crass and chaotic Dubstep ever (and being demonized numerous times as the one who ruined and commercialized the scene), and becoming the new idol for kids who think they know everything about electronic music after hearing a wobble, Skrillex's long-awaited first album sounds like a sincere and honest fuck you to everyone: detractors and fans...

Yes, exactly those fans who adore the ignorant and omnipresent "DROPP," thrown in just to make noise, a typical characteristic of his old tracks with which he bombarded us with for several EPs (I won't do a recap here, too much has already been said).

In this album, Sonny Moore decides to give the fans "what they want," and throws it in their faces without any ado... "Here are your fucking drops"... but underneath... there's the sincere and concrete desire to showcase his real talent and musical culture... So in this album, beneath the deliberately ear-splitting rhythms and bass, we discover underground influences, drum & bass, jazz, 2-step/garage, and other concepts worthy of the most "artistic" electronic music...

With an extraordinary talent, Skrillex serves us "art" disguised as crap... tracks that will certainly end up in the mp3s of the aforementioned kids, but listen carefully, already in the Facebook comments someone says: "It's nice... but... I don't know... it doesn't seem like him!"

An author's slap in the face!

Putting aside the usual sticky Brostep exercises like 'All is Fair in Love and Brostep' or 'Ragga Bomb', we discover absolutely surprising rhythms and synths (for someone like him, to be clear) in the title track "Recess" or "Stranger"...

How can we not mention then stunning tracks like "Try It Out" or "Fuck That"... with their complex rhythms and virtuosic synths!

To a keen ear, you can hear Skrillex's desire to tell everyone and everything to fuck off, to show what he simply is and make music just for the pleasure of making it... In the end, he even indulges in a pleasant IDM drift with the concluding 'Fire Away'... almost as if to tell us that in the future he will tell his current fans to go screw themselves even more!!!

Surely this is not an epochal album and it won't change music history, but it has the merit of sounding fresh and honest like very few albums know how... and that's not insignificant.

A resounding fuck you could not have been more musical!

"It's just Music...so shut the fuck up and dance!!!!"