On his follow-up to 2023’s Quaranta, Danny Brown embraces his new standing as hyperpop unc. Practically each observe on Stardust contains a visitor artist from the higher glitch orbit, amongst them Jane Remover, Underscores, sibling duo Frost Children, and web rapper-turned-art-pop auteur Quadeca. It’s hardly a left flip for Brown, who was linking up with Charli XCX and Purity Ring earlier than it was cool and signed to Warp for 2016’s Atrocity Exhibition. He’ll nonetheless make a meal of any beat that’s thrown his approach—solely now he’s backed up by an prolonged universe of collaborators who really match his freak.
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Armand Hammer & The Alchemist: Mercy [Backwoodz Studioz]
The Alchemist makes beats that maintain the kush scent on them regardless of how a lot you shake them out, and when Armand Hammer hop on, the contact excessive is speedy. On Mercy, their newest collaboration, the artists choose up the place they left off and cross you the blunt within the type of reclined basslines, dreamy piano runs, and the easy storytelling of two of contemporary hip-hop’s greatest rappers. Elucid and billy woods commerce verses sniping the fast rise of synthetic intelligence, memorializing their neighborhoods, and making an attempt to gradual the roll of soul-crushing information. “What’s the function of a poet in occasions like these?” asks Elucid. Surrounded by collaborators Earl Sweatshirt, Cleo Reed, Quelle Chris, Pink Siifu, Silka, and others, Armand Hammer and the Alchemist do their greatest to search out out.
