It’s been four years since Danny Brown released a solo album (2019’s U Know What I’m Sayin?), but the Detroit native is officially back in action with the release of album number six, Quaranta.

Arriving as both the spiritual bookend to his breakout album XXX and a meditative follow-up to this year’s chaotic collaborative album SCARING THE HOES with JPEGMAFIA, Quaranta offers new insight into the inner monologues of an artist who’s mystified fans for over a decade.

Now sober, Brown shares a more pensive, calculated and subdued version of himself with a personal and autobiographical project that was penned during the COVID-19 lockdown while he was holed by himself in downtown Detroit.

“There wasn’t too much to do, so it was the best thing for me to do,” Brown says says, “to put everything I was going through into the music. A lot of people make concept albums, but the concept is my life.” 

Equipped with 11 songs, including “Jenn’s Terrific Vacation” and the Alchemist-laced “Tantor,” the album boasts contributions from SKYWLKR, Quelle Chris, Paul White, and the Bruiser Brigade crew.

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Danny Brown Returns with New Album, ‘Quaranta’ was last modified: November 17th, 2023 by Shake