Working with a new vanguard of outsider electronic artists, the Detroit rapper lets his freak flag fry. Stardust is Brown’s first album fully sober, and it’s the product of spelunking down the hyperpop rabid hole. This exploration began during the pandemic, when Dorian Electra showed him the Subculture party series, which is normally in LA but was now being held over live stream. After he left rehab, listening to underscores’ imaginary-town odyssey, 2023’s Wallsocket, reignited his passion for music. He slowly befriended the wider network of young producer-performers, some of whom began in the digicore scene but have tried to ditch the genre label, refusing to be static, a nomadic fever they shared with Brown. He featured on their songs and took inspo from Jane Remover’s maniacal microgenre dariacore for his 2023 mixtape with JPEGMAFIA, Scaring the Hoes. Stardust marks Brown’s full transformation into dance diva, his own 2020s version of Pop 2 that folds all his current obsessions into a freak-flag-flying ode to life and love. It’s a fun and unwieldy spectacle—at times shaky but always full of heart.
| A1 | Danny Brown (2), Quadeca - Book Of Daniel |
| A2 | Danny Brown (2) - Starburst |
| A3 | Danny Brown (2), Underscores - Copycats |
| A4 | Danny Brown (2), Johnnascus - 1999 |
| B1 | Danny Brown (2), 8485 - Flowers |
| B2 | Danny Brown (2) - Lift You Up |
| B3 | Danny Brown (2), Frost Children - Green Light |
| B4 | Danny Brown (2), Quadeca - What You See |
| C1 | Danny Brown (2), Underscores - Baby |
| C2 | Danny Brown (2), IssBrokie - Whatever The Case |
| C3 | Danny Brown (2), Femtanyl - 1l0v3myl1f3! |
| C4 | Danny Brown (2), Nnamdi Ogbonnaya - Right From Wrong |
| D1 | Danny Brown (2), Ta Ukrainka, Zheani, Quadeca, Cynthoni - The End |
| D2 | Danny Brown (2), Jane Remover - All4U |
