Danny Brown: Atrocity Exhibition track list, details

As the release of Danny Brown’s Atrocity Exhibition draws nearer, the Detroit rapper has shared details about the impending record.

Due Sept. 30, the project will feature assists from prominent names like Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Earl Sweatshirt, and Cypress Hill’s B-Real, as well as left-field powerhouses like South African songwriter Petite Noir and Los Angeles singer Kelela. It also reunites him with longtime collaborator Paul White. The pair’s eclectic, heavily sample-based London sessions cost $70,000 to clear.

“A lot of people cheap. And that’s why their music sounds cheap,” Brown told Rolling Stone of the price tag. “I wanna make timeless stuff, so you’re gonna have to spend a couple dollars. You could have Rolex or you can have a Swatch.”

Atrocity Exhibition, Brown’s fourth album, marks his first collection in nearly three years, following 2013’s critically acclaimed Old. The title is an homage to Joy Division’s 1980 song of the same name, drawing inspiration from Raekwon, early Björk, Joy Division, Talking Heads, and System of a Down’s Toxicity.

“That song, [Ian Curtis is] pretty much talking about how he feels like he’s part of a freak show almost. People just wanna come see him and they just wanna see him be a certain type of way… That’s just how I felt with this album, ’cause a lot of people expect for me to be some crazy drugged-out I-don’t-know,” Brown said. “With Old, I wanted to have those performance songs so I can play those shows. That was what was a part of my world, doing festivals. Whereas this album is just my sound. This is Danny Brown.”

Thus far, he’s only shared “When It Rain,” a menacing, speed-rapped track with a VHS-cut video. He’ll launch a fall tour in support of Atrocity Exhibition Sept. 14 in Philadelphia, wrapping around North America with dates in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Atlanta before closing Nov. 5 in Cleveland.

View the track list for Atrocity Exhibition and tour dates below.

Atrocity Exhibition

1. “Downward Spiral”

2. “Tell Me What I Don’t Know”

3. “Rolling Stone” (featuring Petite Noir)

4. “Really Doe” (featuring Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul & Earl Sweatshirt)

5. “Lost”

6. “Ain’t It Funny”

7. “Goldust”

8. “White Lines”

9. “Pneumonia”

10. “Dance In The Water”

11. “From The Ground” (featuring Kelela)

12. “When It Rain”

13. “Today”

14. “Get Hi” (featuring B-Real)

15. “Hell For It”

Danny Brown Tour Dates

September 14 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theater of the Living Arts

September 15 – Providence, RI @ Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel

September 16 – New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place

September 17 – Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall

September 18 – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club

September 19 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall

September 21 – Columbus, OH @ Park Street Saloon

September 22 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues

September 23 – Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection

September 24 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave II

September 25 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue

September 27 – Des Moines, IA @ Wooly’s

September 28 – Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre

October 1 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex

October 2 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory

October 4 – Seattle, WA @ Neptune Theatre

October 5 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater

October 6 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theater

October 7 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory

October 8 – Eugene, OR @ WOW Hall

October 11 – San Francisco, CA @ Regency

October 12 – Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst

October 14 – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park

October 15 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Fonda Theatre

October 16 – Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory

October 17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom

October 18 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater

October 20 – Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live

October 21 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Music Hall

October 23 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s

October 25 – New Orleans, LA @ Republic New Orleans

October 26 – Nashville, TN @ Exit In

October 27 – Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade

October 28 – Charlotte, NC @ The Underground

October 29 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle

October 30 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel

November 1 – Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Springs

November 2 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small’s Theatre

November 3 – Buffalo, NY @ Town Ballroom

November 4 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix Concert Theatre

November 5 – Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop