Consumer Guide Album

Danny Brown: Stardust [Warp, 2025]
From "the lesson is the essence that snatch you out of adolescence" to "apocalypse"/"pot to piss," the ever-articulate, fast-rapping, high-pitched 44-year-old super-rhymer has lost barely a consonant as he showcases his hard-won sobriety over a panoply of speedy, digicore-friendly beats that are more likely to make your knee bounce and soon enough your head dance than your booty shake. Frantic he's not—finally he has his shit under his control. But excited you may well become, which after all is why you're listening at all. A