Reviews coming out

Remember when he dropped Atrocity early.

nme interview
nme.com/features/music-interviews/danny-brown-stardust-hyperpop-interview-3905040

Making ‘Stardust’ also helped Brown approach hyperpop in ways his mentality wouldn’t allow before. Though his earliest dabble with the genre was with Dorian Electra in 2021, Brown reminisces about discovering pioneer SOPHIE’s 2014 single ‘Bipp’, which he believed was “where grime was gonna go next”. He would have collaborated with her, too, if it weren’t for one Vince Staples.

“Vince Staples started working with SOPHIE, and I remember being like, f*** – he did it, now I can’t do it,” he laments. “That’s one of the things I feel really bad about; I wish I had the chance to work with SOPHIE. I had a moniker with this album: ‘Make SOPHIE proud’, I wrote that in all my notebooks.”

Though Brown would work with Dylan Brady of 100 gecs and PC Music founder A.G. Cook for the record, he felt none of the music fit (“The song is going to get used somewhere else,” he promises us). Instead, Brown was more attracted to the newer wave of digicore, and it was Jesse Taconelli – co-founder of deadAir Records and Quadeca’s manager – who’d introduce Brown to many of his future features.

Not only did Taconelli serve as Brown’s “personal A&R”, he was also responsible for a key element in Brown’s creative process for ‘Stardust’. As he searched for a way to “not just trauma dump”, Taconelli suggested he create a character. Brown eventually called it ‘Dusty Star’, likening it to Prince’s semi-autobiographical approach on ‘Purple Rain’.

“He goes into rehab, he’s done with music. If you listen to ‘Quaranta’, that’s like the prequel,” Brown explains. “I had to go into a different mode and write from a different perspective, especially with the soundscape, so I created this ’90s-era popstar”.

DeadAir is in hot water though....

Wow this sounds so f***ing good lol sounds like the most Danny brown s*** ever
What they said about gabbed and industrial on here has me even more excited lol esp that he made songs with ppl like AG cook and was like this don’t fit im so excited

The problem with his past 2-3 imo is him just not being fully dedicated to the sound and vision this seems completely balls to the wall into it, like it was restrained from going where it could’ve and it had a certain crowd too much in mind.

Apparently there’s a line on the opening track where he calls he Earl and Kendrick the “big 3”

More respectable at the very least.

Some tidbits from interviews/articles I’ve seen:

-Book of Daniel is like the flipside to 30

-Baby w/ underscores interpolates Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U, and is the closest to a straight up love track he’s made

-Influences of grime, techno, house, dnb, dubstep, & folktronica (yes fr) as well as hyperpop

-The spoken word bits from Angel are supposed to be “fan letters” explaining how Danny (or his alter ego he’s taking on) can fall back in love with music

-Generally seeing Whatever The Case, The End, and 1999 being labeled as standout tracks

If true, Danny is such a real one for saying that

The End ft. Zheani leaked a few months ago and that song was fire af but it had an annoying spoken word outro on it. I hope Danny reworked the song or completely removed it from the album

Only the second half leaked (and unfinished), we haven’t heard the first part with Ta Ukrainka at all

I Luv U

hearingthings.co/danny-brown-back-for-the-first-time

New interview. But more importantly:

He's playing the album at this festival in NYC TONIGHT at 7. RSVP FOR FREE WHILE YOU CAN
luma.com/oxqcazel?from=embed

I will be there

#damn

Will this leak early in NZ tomorrow? I can't recall if Quaranta leaked a day before its release

Ah s***. Wish I saw this earlier I would have went.

Danny brown, Armand hammer and Rosalia on one day

Cannot f***ing believe I’m missing this

Yes defo

Quaranta did as well

Said he tried to get Paris Texas & Conway on a Quadeca beat for a posse cut, they didn't like it

BRO WHAAA

Anyone taken notice that it’s 14 tracks, and that if you split that in half, it’s bookmarked by the two Quadeca tracks?

That’s gotta be intentional I feel

I bust out laughing lol wonder what it was