Artist: Danny Brown
Title: ‘Atrocity Exhibition’
Label: Warp
What is it? The Detroit rapper’s most candid and experimental work to date. First album on his new home Warp.
L&Q says: “With ‘XXX’ we wondered if it was a fluke, and on ‘Old’ he proved that it wasn’t. With ‘Atrocity Exhibition,’ Danny Brown cements himself as a hip-hop great.”
September was the best month of 2016 so far for new albums
Here are our month's highlights
Yeah. There are a couple of obvious ones here, but they couldn’t be omitted. Bon Iver’s ’22, A Million’ is a fascinating listen from an artist processing his own recent issues in a bloody-minded and melodic fashion. Same goes for Danny Brown – it’s not just his delivery that makes ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ one of the most unique listens right now but also the newly discovered corners his new music voyages into – hip-hop that wilfully seems without any sort of beat at times. And there were releases we’ve not included – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ ‘Skeleton’, and who could forget Craig David’s return with ‘Following My Intuition’. September, you were good to us.
Artist: Bon Iver
Title: ’22, A Million’
Label: Jagjaguwar
What is it? A new Justin Vernon album, but not what you’d expect.
L&Q says: “‘22, A Million’ is the sound of a battered romantic coming to terms with the state of his life. It plays out like a slow march towards some abstruse redemption.”
