Atrocity Exhibition[1] is a magnum opus. It is a mag'n'um opus and speaking on mag, it's two faced. Magazine and magazine, stories appeared in a magazine[2] before a release as a novel, one whose reading's akin to loading a magazine into a gun and blowing your head off for it blows any reader away. The very anti-thesis of Atrocity Exhibition it is then, for this Atrocity Exhibition[3] "blew" the collective rap's head before being in year end magazines. A purple album and polar opposite of the novel, the novel is violet but that's not the way to view them. There's no point of view, only point or view, pure or vogue, royalty or ultraviolet. "What is beyond violet, beyond Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition," one might ask. Who knows? "What is beyond violet, beyond Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition," two might ask. It's frozen, condensed novels playing the long game in revealing their secrets. On the other hand, Brown's Atrocity Exhibition is viscerally simple and of the moment, in the moment like a…moment? Mom ent?? Mom Enterprise?! Taking no fathers, they bear thick, the lean's chicken meat.
[1] J. G. Ballard (1970, Novel)
[2] New World Magazine (1970)
[3] Danny Brown (2016, Album)