“24.19” and “39.28” echo Prince but are both wholly Childish Gambino. This is a dense but not confounding piece of work that speaks to it’s creators motivation and aspiration. It is long delayed, probably because Glover was busy playing the young Lando Calrissian in Solo: A Star Wars Story and Simba in The Lion King; his father also died, and last year Glover made a short film, Guava Island, starring Rihanna. Even with the chorus of “Everybody move your body, now do it, here is something that’s gonna make you move and groove”, the whole thing doesn’t feel at all frivolous, which is important as the message of how technology, especially the choices we make online, these that inform our own algorithms can be a danger to personal autonomy. Glover is self-aware enough to note this song is a “Yeezy Boost”, the kind of elevation Kanye West has been aiming for with his Sunday Services (and his trainer line). This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Like This Is America – the standalone track that was one of the cultural high-water marks of 2018 – or Atlanta – the groundbreaking TV series Glover created in 2016 – 3.15.20 is as layered as an onion. More recently, however, in the wake of Atlanta’s success, he was capable of discussing his own greatness with a New Yorker profiler. It’s like something great left off the Black Panther soundtrack (Glover’s longtime collaborator, the film composer-turned-producer Ludwig Göransson, worked on the film). The sexual tension is played for laughs, but a thrown-out line rails against overcrowded prisons. Segueing perfectly into “Time”, Glover embraces his vocal prowess. On the previously released “Feels Like Summer,” now titled “42.26,” Glover confronts the climate crisis with a global warming public service announcement. Glover carries his unorthodox approach to the release of “3.15.20” into the album itself. If last week now seems forever ago to most of us, a geological aeon has elapsed since Donald Glover – a then medium-famous US TV actor – was widely derided as a try-hard rap dilettante. There are meditations here on love and self-love, and hook-ups with girls while high on magic mushrooms. These cookies do not store any personal information. Debuted at Coachella in 2019, the next song (then called Warlords and now called 32.22) is an aggressive tour de force; its appetite for tearing up sound rulebooks recalls 00s Kanye West. He later doubled down on the retirement of the Gambino name, announcing on his 2018 This is America Tour that it would be the last Gambino tour. Karen Castañeda, a Humboldt State University environmental studies major, discovered Glover through his show, “Atlanta.”, “I love him as an actor and I blew through the whole show really fast,” Castañeda said. The track features whispered exhortations and, later, whoops, shrieks and synthetic jungle noises. “I do love myself,” he answers, in his best dad voice. The record kicks off with the haunting “0.00” acting as almost a palate cleanser for what’s to come. Though it's … By the end of 47.48, another song about explaining the violence of black life to innocent children, Glover enlists Legend, his eldest son now aged three, to talk about who he loves. A song like Feels Like Summer – now renamed 42.26 – was a hit two years ago; Glover’s last UK tour 12 months ago found room for both the hard-hitting Algorhythm – a dance tune about how humans are outsourcing decision-making to AI – and Time, which blanches at the impending apocalypse alongside Ariana Grande. His 2011 debut album as Childish Gambino, Listen to Childish Gambino’s new album in full, self-love has had a long history in African American music. With it’s spaced out synths and repeated refrain of “We Are, We Are, We Are” the track achieves hallucinatory heights. “I’ll see you for the last Gambino album,” Glover said. But this record was worth the wait and is worth your time, a comprehensive deep-dive made for the dedicated concentration of self-isolation. Bun B – "R.I.P." It’s a journey you’ll want to take over and over again. I have been a fan of its creator Donald Glover for years, so of course I prepare in what I hope will be the next biggest step for his career.

Track 1: Difference. Coming off the success, commercially and artistically, of the last Childish Gambino release, the powerful “This Is America”, expectations were remarkably high and with 3.15.20, damn if Glover didn’t exceed those. Even at the best of times, this record would be just as widely embraced but now, in a world that is basically shutting its doors and people everywhere alone with the only comfort available found online, 3.15.20 may have arrived at the perfect moment. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But it’s impossible to parse the meaning of the workaday farm animal noises at the end.

But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. His 2011 debut album as Childish Gambino, Camp, drew curiosity and disdain. Tree sitters defend forest near Strawberry Rock, How the Redwoods are Battling Climate Change. The world is changing at a breakneck pace for better and worse and Donald Glover seems to always be there with an artistic statement that not only captures the zeitgeist but seemingly rides it into the stratosphere. Northern Transmissions also features music news from around the world everyday.

Apart from Algorhythm and Time, every track is named after the time at which it appears on the album, and Glover packs in anger, despair and personal eureka moments, moving from an angelic falsetto to self-harmonising a cappella (39.28) to heavily Auto-Tuned soothsaying. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Wolf+Rothstein/Liberator Music/RCA Records. Now, Glover’s fourth studio effort, named after the day it was first streamed with little warning via donaldgloverpresents.com, feels like one of the year’s major musical events. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It’s a skewering moment, because Glover has talked (and written and sung) about his extreme discomfort in his own skin since the beginning of his musical career. At this album’s twisted heart is a sardonic country music nursery rhyme about selling drugs that sounds a little like MIA. The production quality on this tape is … “3.15.20” is packed with Glover’s versatile singing and the unique sounds he’s developed over the span of his career. The last time we received a full album from Childish Gambino was 2016's acclaimed Awaken, My Love! Okay, I can already tell that having Ludwig Göransson as a co-producer was a great idea.