Surprise, it's a new Skrillex album.

Skrillex

Noah Dillon

Skrillex dropped a heavy hint a new album was imminent when he posted the tracklist to a project named Soma earlier this week.

It was thus then only sort of a surprise when the album came out today (June 5), marking the fifth studio album in the producer’s catalog. (Although to be fair, his last “album” was a 46-minute mix made from 36 tracks.) Today, Skrill even sent a link to Soma out to his own email list under his real name, Sonny, with a note saying, “feel free to share this with others since not everyone gets these emails. i’m going to look into this as well. <3” The move tracks with anyone who’s ever met him relaying that he’s a sweetheart and a real one — and, of course, one of the most important electronic artists of a generation.