Skrillex teases new album with first single ‘Way Back Home’

Available worldwide on the 3rd of January 2023, ‘Way Back Home’ is Skrillex's first tune of his new album. The track features Trippie Redd and PinkPantheress

Skrillex
Skrillex

What’s the best way to start 2023 with the return of one of the most iconic artists of the electronic music scene? Skrillex is ready to drop his brand-new album in 2023. To starts things off, on the 3rd of January, 2023, Skrillex will drop Way Back Home with Trippie Redd and PinkPantheress. The record will be out via OWSLA / Atlantic Records.

The announcement of a new album has been published on Skrillex’s Instagram with the simple sentence “QFF/DGTC 23.” Probably referring to the album names and 2023. Fans have come up with acronyms for Quantum Field Friends and Don’t Get Too Close, which have previously been heard in Skrillex’s circles. This is all he’s given us so far: a teaser trailer with samples from various songs and variations of his old logo that eventually transition into his updated version of the logo on various backgrounds.

Worth noticing that Skrillex’s Instagram account has been wiped and it now contained the below post.

I don’t like to say too much, but I mean, I have some projects, I hate the word finishing, but I have all the songs and I’m just in there tweaking and releasing some singles before I decided to put out the bodies of work. – Skrillex on an interview with Zane Lowe in August 2021

skrillex_jahn, a Reddit user, put together a potential list of what each music might be:

1 – ID
2 – ID (feat. PinkPantheress?)
3 – Way Back Home (feat. Trippie Redd & PinkPantheress)
4 – Jungle (feat. Bladee & Yung Lean) (4 & 6 are the same)
5 – ID
6 – Jungle (feat. Bladee & Yung Lean) (4 & 6 are the same)
7 – ID (feat. Prentiss & Anthony Green)
8 – ID
9 – Stay With Me
10 – Tears (feat. Joker & Sleepnet)
11 – Rumble (feat. Fred Again.. & Elley Duhé & Flowdan)
12 – Selecta (feat. Beam)
13 – Party People (feat. Missy Elliott)
14 – Xena
15 – Inhale/Exhale
16 – Too Bizarre (Skrillex & Posij Remix)
17 – ID
18 – Good Space (feat. Starrah)
19 – ID
20 – Moving Here (feat. Kid Cudi)

UPDATE: It seems that Skrillex, PinkPantheress & Trippie Redd Way Back Home hasn’t been released and, instead, the tune that appeared online yesterday was in fact a leak.

UPDATE 2:  Skrillex, after having released Rumble with free Again…, confirmed that Way Back Home will be out tomorrow, the 5th of January 2023.