Don’t Get To Close is the third studio album by American record producer Skrillex. It was released on February 18, 2023, through Owsla and Atlantic Records. It was released the day after his 2023 album Quest for Fire, with both records being announced and promoted simultaneously. Reviewing the album for Pitchfork, Chal Ravens described it as “the more adventurous but marginally less successful” of Skrillex’s second and third albums, and wrote that Skrillex “scores the interior world of our hero’s adventure in a very-now merger of emo, rap, J-Pop, memecore, video game music, and angsty boy-girl duets”. Ravens also found the album to be “intriguingly weird” and “likely to confound the older fans while opening new doors for Skrillex as a collaborator”. David Cobbald of The Line of Best Fit felt the inclusion of “Don’t Go” makes the album “more of a pop record than Quest For Fire” and questioned “whether this record would’ve been better if it was released first” as it “adds a certain depth to its predecessor” despite “the albums still work[ing] as a pair” regardless. Ben Devlin of musicOMH found the album to be “shorter and considerably more patchy” than Quest for Fire, with “gargly autotune” from Chief Keef on “Bad for Me”, the child vocals on “3am” becoming “tedious quickly” and the lyrics on “Don’t Get Too Close” sounding “like one big in-joke”, which “completely tanks the project’s momentum”, summarizing that the best songs amount “to a great EP”
Skrillex also teased about more upcoming projects Contra and Skrlx later this year. It’s good to see his drive. And we look forward to hearing more of him being featured vocally as well.
