SOMA — Skrillex, 2026 | Via OWSLA
Midnight. The album drops.
No promo run, no lengthy interview: SOMA arrived tonight like a Spotify notification cutting through the silence. Skrillex doesn't announce — he deposits. That's been his operating mode for years, and every single time, it lands. Thirteen tracks, 42 minutes, a minimalist cover that says everything about where the album goes: austere, physical, taut.
Sonny Moore delivers his fifth studio album. After the double project Quest For Fire in 2023, followed by a 34-track surprise bomb dropped via Dropbox the year after, SOMA marks a tightening: short format, thematic coherence, zero filler. The title says it all — "soma" in Greek means "the body." A physical anchor. An invitation to listen with your gut before your ears.
An album without borders
What strikes you across SOMA is the sheer geographic reach. Tracks move between stripped-down dubstep (Scut 2 with rom, Thistle with Randomer and Blawan), heavy bass music (Smoke with ISOxo, Anybody), and Latin and global influences that draw a far wider map than anything Skrillex had previously charted.
É o Bonde with Chris Lake and RHR, Pente Rala with MC Dricka, Duro with Young Miko: Portuguese and Spanish arrive naturally, without any forced world-music branding. Diwali closes the album with a nod to Jamaican riddim culture. This isn't a producer hunting for an exotic aesthetic — it's someone who's been everywhere and brought the sounds back with him.
Tracks to pay attention to
Smoke and Noche Without You with Feid were already out as singles, but they now lock into a coherent narrative arc. La Noche 2 at track 10 is a direct sequel to Noche Without You at track 5: two blocks of the same sonic space, separated by opposing textures. That kind of mirror construction signals an album built from start to finish, not assembled on the fly.
Diwali as the closing track surprises and sticks. Naisha and BEAM bring warmth that cuts against the industrial cold of the album's opening. SOMA starts in concrete and ends somewhere between sunlight and the street. Not bad for 42 minutes.
SOMA, in Greek, means "the body." Skrillex has always made dancing a physical question before an aesthetic one. The album lives up to its name.