Save for his appearance on the new Avalanches album, the general world at large hasn't heard much of the freaked out and distinctive flow pouring out of the mouth of Detroit's Danny Brown in about three years.

His brand new album, Atrocity Exhibition (yes, it is named after the Joy Division song named after a JG Ballard book) feeds the fix that underground hip hop fans have been fiending for.

While the, as they say in the biz, emphasis track "When It Rain" may be a bit of some kinda messed up party song there's something more fateful looming all over the album. On the surface the casual listener may just hear another wordy rapper yelping twisted rhymes. As it get absorbed though, astute ears realize that the lyrics aren't some celebration of street life but an examination and venting of the circumstances from such things, where it took him and where he ended up. No, it is not some moral tale-it's is a lot of introspection though.

What are you listening to tonight?