Wut up guys!!!!!! So I decided that I would do something a little different, and write an album review on one of my favorite artists of all time.
So, a couple of months ago a new Skrillex song got leaked, and the next day we learned that the long awaited Skrillex album was coming out. Okay, I was frickin pumped. I had been waiting forever for this album, especially since Skrillex is one of my biggest influences. Well, it finally came out.
Now, I'm gonna be honest and say that this wasn't exactly what I had been hoping for. Now, I'm also NOT saying that it was bad, but it wasn't what I was expecting. So here's my song-by-song review of Skrillex's new album, Recess.
Okay, so we begin with a opener called All's Fair in Love and Brostep. Kinda a long title, right? This song was a rerun version of Sonny's song "Untitled Dj Tool". We kick into this awesome intro and hear some pretty awesome basses and some reggae rapping by The Ragga Twins. This is the Skrillex I was waiting for. Promising intro, awesome raps and killer build-up. Nice. Good start. But, sadly, things go downhill when we kick into the drop. What.The. Crap.
For those of you who don't know there's an artist named Zomboy. Zomboy sort of ripped-off Skrillex's "Untitled Dj Tool" mentioned earlier. Sooooo, because Skrillex was pissed, Sonny decided that he would make a drop that is a exact copy of Zomboy's Terror Squad drop.
This made me mad for a few reasons. One is, as my wonderful sister put it, Skrillex is talented enough to where he DOESN'T need to do that. It sucks because he takes a great opener and screws it up to where I can't hear it and think, "Wow this is so great", because it's just not original.
Second reason. Terror squad had a similar bass skreech sound that Skrillex had, but it wasn't even that bad of a rip-off. It was just really unnecessary all around.
Though, Skrillex and Zomboy are totes cool with it.
So, taking into fact that even though Skrillex totally screwed up Terror Squad, the song is still kinda cool. Soooooo, I'm gonna give it a 3/5
Next is our album-title track, Recess. This song is just great. No other way to put it. They have this rapper named Fatman Scoop on the track, and he just adds so much energy. This collab with Kill The Noise is just super epic and totally a jammer. It's sooooo good. Not much more to say.
4.5/5
Next we get to my favorite song off this album. Now, most of the reviewers of this album were mad that Skrillex went "trap" (that's actually a load of crap considering that there is only 2 trap songs on the album. Just saying) Stranger is one of the two trap songs and it combines a dancy, moohmbahton-y, trappy feel ALLLLLL mashed up into one epic song. This song has some really awesome vocals and is just fantastic. 4.9/5
Next song is Try It Out. This song was released as a single in September of last year, so it wasn't much of a surprise. This song is still really good, and is more of the Skrillex sound we know and love.
4/5
Then, we have our 5th song, Coast Is Clear (Feat Chance The Rapper). This song is really out of the Skrillex-style zone. It's actually a pretty fun song. Chance sings a kind of Jazzy-Soul intro, then kicks into some pretty cool rap. This song is very different and I have to admit, when I first heard I was like....
Though, this song is kinda gross, but it's a cool song though, so 3.9/5
Next is probably the biggest disgrace to electronic music. This. Song. Sucks. BIG time. Dirty Vibe is just a waste of time. Okay, first off, it's a dirty song. We have CL from 2NE1, and G-Dragon from Big Bang. They probably don't realize what they are saying, because it's pretty bad. I blame Diplo, though, for the nasty lyrics. Diplo collabed with Skrillex on this one, annnnnddddddd there are many reasons you can tell. One is, the vocal production sucks. Second, it's trap, which is all that Diplo does. Thirdly, it's gross. I skip this song on my i-Pod every time, because it's just that bad. It's not only because of the lyrics, but because it just sucks.
.0000000000002/5
The next song, Ragga Bomb, is also kinda disappointing. I mean, it's not bad, but it just doesn't deliver. Sonny works with a faster tempo in this one, but it just lacks a pumping beat. It's got a coolish rap, but it just really is not the Skrillex blows the living crap out of your speakers.
So............. this song gets a 3/5
Okay, I really question this next song. A lot. Like, how high had Sonny been when he made this song. The first clue is the fact that the song is called Doompy Poomp. Daheq is up with that title? Anyway, so we kick into this really trippy vocal jibberish crap-thing, and then this REALLLYYYY weird synth thing that just screams drugs. It really gets weird when he has this vocal sample that says "PARTY", but he slows it down at one point to where it sounds like he's saying "POTTY". It sounds like a song that would be appropriate for the toilet. Seriously Sonny? Wut daheq.
Forward!
F*** That crosses that boundaries of different. At first, I was slightly annoyed by the oddness of the drop, but then the song quickly grew on me. Unfortunately, it crosses the boundaries just slightly as far as the f-word goes. It's never actually fully used, but still the censorship doesn't hide how many times it's there. Still, the song is very different and has very nice synths and is mega catchy.
4/5
Next is Skrillex' remix of Niki and the Dove's "Ease My Mind". I don't know exactly why this is on the album. Don't get me wrong, I love the song, it's just that, it's a remix and not a original. I guess the goal was that it'd do better on a Skrillex record rather than a Niki record. It's a pretty good song, and isn't disappointing. The only thing that bugs me is that some of the transitions are slightly sloppy, sooooo 4.3/5
Next is our wrap-up song "Fire Away". This song is like the "Summit" of Bangarang, or the "With you friends" off SMANS. This song is pretty great. It's a great end. It's a great melodic track. It's also super depressing. Of course, it's gotta be. It's just like Summit and With You (although this song doesn't really have any actual words). This song is great to chill to. It's a great wrap-up to the album.
4.5/5
Overall, Recess is really good. It delivers a variety of styles, and is fun upbeat dance stuff. Unfortunately, it's not as good as we can expect. SMANS is really good. Bangarang is mindblowing!!! But Recess is just good. The songs that are fantastic make it worth it, but the bad songs just take up space. It would've been a lot better if he had just cut those songs and made it a EP. Doompy Poomp, and Dirty Vibe just waste time! Recess, Fire Away, and Stranger are the best songs. The make the album worth it.
I think the album gets a 3.5/5
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