“Skrillex got famous by careening recklessly toward the future. The hits that made him dubstep's biggest star, from 2010's "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" to 2011's "First of the Year (Equinox)," sounded less like songs and more like a Transformer eating Voltron: He used otherworldly robot noise instead of instruments, sampled viral YouTube snippets instead of classic vinyl, and replaced verse-ch”
“Skrillex is a festival-circuit megastar who’s already put an indelible sonic imprint on the early stretch of this decade, but Recess is his first proper album. It's a mix of big-drop dubstep tunes and whatever-works eclecticism, including spots from Chance the Rapper, Diplo, and Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit.”
“Famed dubstep producer Skrillex finally drops a full-length record.”