REVIEW: Skrillex is back with his second album, ‘Quest For Fire,’ a blur of eclectic guests, world-swallowing beats and perpetual energy.
; the way they move in and out of each song enhances the album’s grab-bag feel. Pop songsmith Starrah and electro experimentalist Four Tet pop into the DJ booth for the house throwdown “Butterflies”; Missy Elliott salutes her legacy over the buzzin-fly-and-bass beat of “RATATA,” which spins out of a line from her still-futuristic-sounding 2002 single “Work It.
“This is the culmination of all your hard work … you were living on people’s floors and now here you are,” an excitable reporter yaps to Skrillex — then, Sonny Moore — and in “Warped Tour ’05,” a found-sound interlude near the end of the album. The joke is that 2005 was barely the beginning for Skrillex, but the same could be said foris on the near horizon, complete with a
. Like the mosh pits and dance floors that have thrilled to his music over the years, Skrillex knows that perpetual motion is crucial.
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