Danny Brown

Atrocity Exhibition

Atrocity Exhibition offers dementedly, nihilistically danceable music.

It’s a harsh, machete-sharp, dissonant sound and scabrous vision at work on Atrocity Exhibition, yet one geared for entertainment—gleeful arts and farts—rather than just morose, soul-searching evisceration.

If not every experiment works, Brown's twinkling hook-up with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Earl Sweatshirt on Really Doe totally surpasses its billing.

Even as Atrocity Exhibition plumbs depths, Brown remains a savvy operator.

The oddball rapper with the humdrum name is carving out a space all of his own.

With ‘Atrocity Exhibition,’ Danny Brown cements himself as a hip-hop great.

While Atrocity Exhibition is stuffed like a piñata with colorful addictions ... its also teeming with the isolation, paranoia and regrets you could expect from a rap album named after a Joy Division song. 

On Atrocity Exhibition, Danny Brown is better than he's ever been.

Hard rhymes, hard beats and a metallic self-scrutiny see Danny Brown make astute decisions, and reap all that he deserves.

Exuding confidence at every turn, his ability to wrangle any sound into his warped world of hip hop is exhilarating.

Brown has finally found a sonic backdoor into the A list rap career he's been destined for by huddling amongst the sharp genre-bending, sampled scraps of his own mental demise and the backing of his new eclectic label.

The whole of Atrocity Exhibition takes Brown’s craft to a new level, even if his delivery occasionally grates. It’s by far the best thing he’s released and confirms his arrival among the rap elite.

Atrocity Exhibition isn't quite as breathtakingly brilliant as XXX was and will probably alienate some of the fans that Old gained him, but it's basically just a good Danny Brown album. 

Atrocity Exhibition arrives as a dark, boom-bap document of the MC's odyssey, as well as an incisive commentary on the perils of fame.

Although the unconventional song structures and ostensibly clashing influences may create an unsettling experience for some, this is Hip Hop’s most sonically focused project since Kendrick’s To Pimp a Butterfly.

Atrocity Exhibition gets props for being not only creative and ominously expressive but moving anyone out of their comfort zone.

Unfortunately for those who value Brown as a lyricist, the rapping isn’t as fascinating as the music.

This fourth album is produced by south London’s Paul White, and a shared taste for Talking Heads and especially Joy Division takes it way off the mainstream hip-hop map.