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DANNY BROWN Quaranta hails from 2023 and is a SEALED exclusive and numbered LP pressed on Orange Vinyl, from VMP (slight corner ding).  Quaranta, the long awaited new album from the Detroit legend Danny Brown is here. This semi-sequel to his breakthrough XXX is like a career compendium, capturing Danny in all his different modes and moods in one single album. It rules.

As the intro notes, “Quaranta” is Italian for “forty.” According to Brown, Quaranta is the spiritual sequel to XXX, his breakout album released on Fool’s Gold in 2011, that infamously cataloged a life lived on the edge at thirty. The whirlwind of parties, tours, collaborations and achievements that followed that landmark release seemed to fly by fast–ten years later, when COVID-19 brought the world to a halt, Brown found himself in downtown Detroit, living alone for the first time ever. After years of escapist escapades, he was forced to adjust to the stillness and silence, and the bars on Quaranta are diaristic in a distinctly Danny Brown way. First-person scenes from Brown’s early childhood and family arrive vividly on “YBP”; he tears into rising rents for two-bedrooms and new gourmet shops that now litter downtown Detroit on “Jenn’s Terrific Vacation”; and regret-filled reflections on a near fifteen-year rap career add depth throughout the project. There’s no shortage of Brown’s typical blitzing verses over angular, mesmerizing production from some of his oldest collaborators including Quelle Chris, Paul White & SKYWLKR, but the Alchemist produced “Tantor” is just the kind of cold-steel contradistinction which he’s been celebrated throughout his career.

Limited to 1000 copies, the VMP exclusive version of Danny Brown's Quaranta is pressed on Transparent Orange vinyl at Precision Record Pressing (PRP). The 1LP will arrive in a single, direct-to-board, foil-stamped and numbered jacket with a download code. It was mastered by Tatsuya Sato at The Mastering Palace.

Quaranta

Tantor

Ain't My Concern

Dark Sword Angel

Y.B.P.

Jenn’s Terrific Vacation

Down Wit It

Celibate

Shakedown

Hanami

Bass Jam

U im Me