Danny Brown is releasing his third studio album Atrocity Exhibition (Warp) on 9/30 and will be hitting Toronto on 11/4 at Phoenix Concert Theatre. His last two albums (XXX and OLD on Fool’s Gold) were critically lauded – there’s truly no one else like him in hip-hop. His new Evian Christ-produced track “Pneumonia” got Best New Track @ Pitchfork, an A from Entertainment Weekly, 8/10 from FACT etc – check link to listen below + see his video for “When It Rain” with an apocalyptic Detroit as the background. Album has some great cameos – including Kendrick Lamar !!

Listen to Pneumonia via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csxSwkl4Gd0
Watch When it Rains via http://smarturl.it/rain-yt

Atrocity Exhibition explores some weighty themes, but there’s light amidst the darkness, too. Brown’s sense of humor and party-starting vibe is more than present throughout the record, from the frantic electro-combustion of “When It Rain” to the raunchy travelogue of “Golddust,” the latter in which our protagonist rhapsodizes about twerk-offs and Bloody Marys for brunch over a martial soul sample. Soothed-out smoking anthem “Get Hi” finds Brown taking a literal breather to remind listeners about the finer, more fragrant things in life, while “White Lines” turns a dizzying drug binge into the type of sing-along you’d find on a demented, alternate-universe Sesame Street.

Clearly, Brown has poured a lot of himself into Atrocity Exhibition—an undistilled sip from his creative tap—and as such, the album’s features have been carefully chosen. Kelela lends her snaking vocals to the intriguingly murky “From the Ground,” Cypress Hill’s B-Real delivers “Get Hi”’s languid hook, and Earl Sweatshirt, Kendrick Lamar, and Ab-Soul all convene for the twinkling ominousness of “Really Doe.”

“When XXX came out, all of us were peers, and those were the three rappers who were the best,” Brown explains on having the star-packed trio appear on the track. “I felt like we were competitors, they made me want to step my game up. I wanted to put the hottest rappers in the game on there.”