Don't Get Too Close

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Don't Get Too Close
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Studio album by
Skrillex
ReleasedFebruary 18, 2023
Genre
Length33:35
Label
Producer Skrillex
Skrillex chronology
Quest for Fire
(2023)		Don't Get Too Close
(2023)		Skrillex
(2024)
Singles from Don't Get Too Close
  1. "Don't Go"
    Released: August 20, 2021
  2. "Way Back"
    Released: January 5, 2023
  3. "Real Spring"
    Released: January 26, 2023
  4. "Don't Get Too Close"
    Released: February 13, 2023

Don't Get Too Close is the third studio album by American record producer Skrillex. It was released on February 18, 2023, through Owsla and Atlantic Records. [3] It was released the day after his 2023 album Quest for Fire , with both records being announced and promoted simultaneously. It was preceded by the singles "Way Back" (with PinkPantheress and Trippie Redd), "Real Spring" (with Bladee), and "Don't Get Too Close" (with Bibi Bourelly). Skrillex is also separately credited as "Sonny Moore" on the title track, and is featured as a vocalist for the first time since 2015's Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü . [4]

Contents

Promotion and release

Skrillex teased the album on social media alongside Quest for Fire on January 1, 2023, with a message hinting at the names of the two albums, and their release later that year. A snippet of samples from both albums was uploaded, alongside an animation featuring the two "ill" logos that he uses for each album. [5]

The title and album artwork were officially revealed on February 13, 2023, alongside the music video for the title track. [6]

The album was surprise-released during Skrillex's performance at Madison Square Garden, alongside Fred Again and Four Tet, on February 18, 2023. [7] [8]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 72/100 [9]
Review scores
SourceRating
The Line of Best Fit 7/10 [2]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [10]
Pitchfork 7.3/10 [1]
Resident Advisor 6/10 [11]

According to the review aggregator Metacritic , Don't Get Too Close received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 72 out of 100 from 4 critic scores. 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". [1] 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. [2] 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". [10]

Track listing

Don't Get Too Close track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Don't Leave Me Like This" (with Bobby Raps)
1:42
2."Way Back" (with PinkPantheress and Trippie Redd)
  • Skrillex
  • Wiggins
  • PinkPantheress
  • Rex Kudo
  • Harle [a]
1:59
3."Selecta" (with Beam)
3:10
4."Ceremony" (with Yung Lean and Bladee)
3:12
5."Real Spring" (with Bladee)
  • Skrillex
  • Reichwald
Skrillex2:09
6."Summertime" (with Kid Cudi)
Skrillex2:11
7."Bad for Me" (with Corbin and Chief Keef)
2:53
8."3am" (with Prentiss and Anthony Green)
  • Skrillex
  • Anthony Green
  • Daniel Aranson
  • Henry Furr
  • Skrillex
  • DxnnyFxntom [a]
3:26
9."Don't Go" (with Justin Bieber and Don Toliver)
2:48
10."Don't Get Too Close" (with Bibi Bourelly)
  • Skrillex
  • Lido
4:04
11."Mixed Signals" (with Swae Lee)
2:46
12."Painting Rainbows" (with Bibi Bourelly)
  • Skrillex
  • Bourelly
  • Jamil Pierre
3:15
Total length:33:35

Notes

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

Charts

Chart performance for Don't Get Too Close
Chart (2023)Peak
position
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [12] 84
US Top Dance/Electronic Albums (Billboard) [13] 6

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