Brown, Danny - Quaranta (Red Vinyl) IMT1086491.1 I Used to Spend So

I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone is a brave and often exhilarating tangle of mixed feelings and haunting melodies that connects dizzying anguish ("This Time of Night") to shimmering insight ("Different Now") to gauzy ambiguity ("Stuck")

[engineer] Jay [Newland] was over the moon

peaked at number 26 on the Pop Singles chart in 1979

along with backing vocals from Santigold

The Ballad of Dood and Juanita

Brown, Danny - Quaranta (Red Vinyl) IMT1086491.1 I Used to Spend SoAs the intro notes, Quaranta is Italian for forty. According to Brown, Quaranta is the spiritual sequel to XXX, his breakout album released on Fools Gold in 2011, that infamously cataloged a life lived on the edge at thirty. The whirlwind of parties, tours, collaborations and achievements that followed that landmark release seemed to fly by fastten years later, when COVID 19 brought the world to a halt, Brown found himself in downtown Detroit, living