Critics give Atrocity Exhibition a B-Side Breakdown of 83 (Keeper), from 8 reviews at outlets we track. Scores run 60 to 100.
The verdict on Atrocity Exhibition
Most critics loved it: 7 of 8 liked it.
- Highest 100 The Guardian and AllMusic
- Outlier 60 The Independent, 20 points below the next-lowest score
- Career Tied for #3 of Danny Brown's 8 albums with a Breakdown
- By the numbers The third best-reviewed Hip-Hop & Rap album of 2016 we've tracked.
| The gist | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Guardian via Wikipediaby Ben Beaumont-Thomas | 5/5 | 100 | 2016 | |
| AllMusic via Wikipediaby David Jeffries | 5/5 | 100 | ||
| Pitchfork via Wikipediaby Matthew Ramirez | 8.5/10 | 85 | 2016 | “Atrocity Exhibition can be seen as the third work in a trilogy that began with XXX. Here, Danny Brown's songs of pain and release are accompanied by dense sonics from…” |
| Uncut via Wikipediaby Louis Pattison | 8/10 | 80 | 2016 | |
| Q via Wikipediaby Steve Yates | 4/5 | 80 | 2016 | |
| Rolling Stone via Wikipediaby Christopher R. Weingarten | 4/5 | 80 | 2016 | “Our take on hip-hop wild card's fourth album.” |
| Mojo via Wikipediaby Andy Cowan | 4/5 | 80 | 2016 | |
| The Independent via Wikipediaby Nick Hasted | 3/5 | 60 | 2016 | “Also Devendra Banhart – Ape in Pink Marble, Robert Glasper Experiment – ArtScience” |
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Atrocity Exhibition in Danny Brown's catalog
How these critics usually treat Danny Brown
- The Guardian Kinder than usual19 points above the other critics here. Usually 1 point below on Danny Brown's other albums (3).
- AllMusic Kinder than usual19 points above the other critics here. Usually 9 points above on Danny Brown's other albums (6).
- Pitchfork About usual for them2 points above the other critics here. Usually 5 points below on Danny Brown's other albums (7).
- Rolling Stone About usual for them4 points below the other critics here. Usually 10 points below on Danny Brown's other albums (4).
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How the Breakdown works
Every outlet’s score is converted to 0–100 (2/5 is 40, 5.9/10 is 59) and averaged. A letter grade counts as the star rating it matches across thousands of reviews of the same albums, so a B+ is 75, like four stars, and a B is 65. Verdicts: Heavy Rotation is 85 and up, Keeper 70–84, Mixed Bag 55–69, Back of the Crate below 55. Approval is the share of critics who scored it 70 or higher (7/10, three and a half stars); the Breakdown shows green at 70 and up, red below. Divisiveness asks a different question: not how many critics liked it, but how close their scores are to each other. Five critics who all give it 50 are Unanimous, even though none of them liked it. The labels run Unanimous, Broad agreement, Some debate, Divided, and Contentious. Replay rate comes from listeners, not critics: yes counts fully, a few tracks counts half, no counts zero. The gist quotes each outlet’s own summary of its review. Published is the date on the review itself, read from the outlet’s page, so you can see whether an album’s reputation came at release or years later. Scores marked est. come from reviews that publish no number. Scores marked via Wikipedia are archive ratings, mostly for older albums, taken from the “Professional ratings” box on the album’s Wikipedia page (published openly through Wikidata); each links to the original review when we can find it online, and to that Wikipedia entry when we can’t. When an outlet reviewed an album twice, years apart (often for a reissue), both scores count, each labeled with its year.
A-Side marks the critics’ top tier. An album earns it automatically, from its numbers alone: a Breakdown of 90 or higher, from at least 5 reviews, with at least 75% approval. Nobody hands it out and nobody can buy it; if new reviews pull an album below the line, it loses the badge.
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