Skrillex Releases Surprise Album Soma

Another Friday, another project from Skrillex. The new album is titled Soma, a 13-track collection that arrived with no advance warning and very little ceremony on June 5. It is the latest turn in a year defined by volume and speed.

The tracklist pulls together stray singles from recent months, including the March release “Duro” with Young Miko, and stretches into sharper, club-facing territory with contributions from Blawan, Tracey, and RHR. The presence of those names signals a continued interest in the harder edges of UK bass and techno. Skrillex has spent the past several years threading those influences through his work, and Soma pushes that line further. It does not announce a new direction so much as it confirms where his attention has been fixed for a while now.

The album lands just months after F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3, a record whose title suggested a kind of chaotic, self-aware fatigue. Since then, he has released two EPs — Kora and Hit Me Where It Hurts X — and appeared alongside Xaviersobased and Dylan Brady on “Party at My Place.” The pace has been relentless, but the output has held shape. Each release has marked a distinct pocket of his practice rather than blurring into the next.

This weekend, Skrillex programs the Cupra Pulse stage at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, curating a full 12-hour block from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Saturday. It is a slot that rewards a certain kind of stamina and taste, and it arrives with the implicit question of how much of Soma will make it into the set. For those watching remotely, the Primavera Sound 2026 livestream will carry his Friday night performance, alongside sets from the Cure, the xx, and Oklou.

The release strategy — if you can call it that — reflects a producer working outside the usual album cycle pressures. Soma lands less like a statement and more like a portfolio update. It is a record built for what comes next, even if what comes next is just the next one.