Danny Brown - Stardust (November 7, 2025) • Page 2

admittedly haven't really dialed in on his last few but this seems very much my shit

 

Yeah this is awesome

 

Yeah, this is great. Was worried I wasn't going to like it considering some of the features, but Danny rapping over hyperpop works so well.

 

this is easily his best in ten years, a little blown away

 

I still love Quaranta even if it's less adventurous. I actually love that it's mostly low-key.

 

For sure. Dude has incredible range

 

this is his best since Old

 

Agreed

 

But I do prefer Old to XXX and his most recent stuff

 

Really cool album

 

The Atrocity Exhibition erasure here rn smh

 

It’s 3rd or 4th for me

 

I don't like the quadeca-produced songs and the spoken interludes will perish at the hands of my copy of cool edit pro but there's some great stuff smattered throughout elsewhere.

 

The spoken word interstitials are painful but the rest of this is unreal, easily some of the best shit I’ve heard all year

 

only heard Copycats so far but it's insanely good

 

kinda blows my mind that people don't like Quaranta, some of his most beautiful stuff on there

 

This is awesome

 

yeah this thing goes, I had it on in the background playing Hades so I don't know all the song names but the first song, Lift You Up and the love my life one feel like career highlights. I'm just looping Lift You Up right now that song is absurd

 

This record rocks. He really doesn’t miss, loved all of his records. Wish he’d put the hybrid on streaming for more people to enjoy

 

this probably falls in the middle of my danny ranking but every danny is great

 

I’m the weirdo who loves UKnoWhatImSayin? and thinks everything else is just pretty good, including this.

 

his catalog is varied enough where i can understand that happening with any album of his tbh. im kinda that way with atrocity exhibition since that album has like a top 10 production job ive ever heard in any style. as much as i dig the other stuff, the musical scrapyard of that album just kinda gives me something i cant get from any other album

my other fav of his goes in the opposite direction though lol, absolutely adore quaranta's slower side

 

This isn’t really my thing at all unfortunately

 

Danny Brown: Stardust

good write-up regardless of score

 

I don't particularly love it, feels like Pitchfork didn't know who to give the review to so they went to their go-to experimental/electronic guy since it crosses into that territory. It's sort of stuck between being too hyperpop/electronic influenced for their rap review people, but it's actually not as far into that on full listen so it's not experimental enough for this reviewer. I'd actually say Atrocity is more experimental than this, and that's not trying to knock this one for not being as much. I don't get the feeling Danny was trying to go as wild as the features list first indicate, and that his concept/themes of sobriety are what he was more focused on. He's surprisingly clear sounding for the majority of the album, I think he would have buried his bars in the production more if that was truly his aim.

I don't think Danny's intent was to be "fully defacing and deterritorializing the electronic styles" as the reviewer suggests, so it not going as hard and crazy as stuff on Revengeseekerz or Frost Children's recent material doesn't bother me. I'm here for the Danny bars, and I think he delivers. All the while bringing in awesome collabs, which to the reviewer's credit he does highlight Danny doing in general and having a finger on the pulse of upcoming acts.