«Financial and social ascension cannot save you from the traumas of being molded in a failed system,» wrote Lawrence Burney of Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition on Friday. «In some cases, these successes can even worsen the blow. So, how are you to deal with it?»
Opening a record with a track called «Downward Spiral,» and naming it after a Joy Division track in the first place, made Danny Brown’s mindset pretty clear on his latest. Things haven’t been easy, and they’re not getting better.
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Listen to them all below.
Danny Brown – Atrocity Exhibition
Bon Iver – 22, A Million
Pixies – Head Carrier
Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
Nicholas Jaar – Sirens
Banks – The Altar
Regina Spektor – Remember Us to Life
Drive-By Truckers – American Band
Blonde Redhead – Masculin Féminin
Yann Tiersen – EUSA
Lead photo via Danny Brown on Instagram.
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