It's not an academic exercise by any means, though. Göransson and the tight crew of musicians must all be dedicated students of the era's sounds, and they play with controlled passion and fire. Empowering pop-soul songs ("Have Some Love"), gloomy tales of the entertainment biz ("Zombies"), late-night detours into true love ("Redbone") - everything Glover tries comes off just right and every note on every song is perfectly placed. Tripped-out ballads like "Me and Your Mama" and "Terrified" bump up against massive jams like "Riot" and "Boogieman," and totally oddball moments like "California" match up well with heartfelt songs about fatherhood ("The Night Me and Your Mama Met," "Stand Tall"), which give the album its heart. Glover and Göransson construct the album like a soundtrack to a nostalgic trip, hitting all the sweet spots of that magic moment when funk and soul got truly odd and inspiring. He doesn't have a classic soul singer's voice, but what he does have is personality and it comes through loud and clear, even through the murkiest moments of nasty funk. He does use his voice like an acrobat, though, sometimes crooning sweetly, other times screaming like a demon. "Awaken, My Love!" has fuzz guitars, vintage synths of all kinds, burbling organs, grimy basslines, and masses of backing vocals adorning the songs the influence of Sly Stone and George Clinton's various groups is strong, and Glover doesn't rap at all.
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While working on his new TV series, Atlanta, Glover and his longtime sidekick Ludwig Göransson seem to have had some kind of musical awakening brought on by late-'60s dipped-in-psychedelia soul and early-'70s earthy funk. His 2015 EP Kauai widened his approach a bit, with Glover doing more singing than rapping in a hazy modern R&B style, showing off a voice so smooth that it's almost unfair that one guy can have so much going for him. During each performances, phones or recording devices in general were confiscated.Over the course of a backpack's worth of mixtapes and a couple of albums that won him commercial success, if not critical acclaim, Childish Gambino (aka Donald Glover) staked a claim as one of the brainiest, weirdest, and most inventive rappers around. Before the album's release, Glover held a 3-night concert event called "PHAROS" where his fans could come camp out in a deserted area in Joshua Tree, California and would see him perform songs from the album.This is also his first album not to be a entirely rap album.This is the first album by Glover where entirely every track has been sung instead of rapped.The album cover was a Easter egg in one of the episodes of Donald Glover's show " Atlanta" before the album's official announcement.
The album was officially certified “Platinum” by the RIAA on September 27, 2018. The album is also Glover's highest charting album to date and was streamed over 41.5 million times in it's first week.
This album was released on Decemby Glassnote Records and features solely psychedelic soul, funk, and R&B which is a huge departure from his previous predominant hip-hop/rap style projects. "Awaken, My Love!" is the third studio album by American recording artist Donald Glover, under the stage name " Childish Gambino". Donald Glover (exec.), Ludwig Goransson (also exec.), Gary Clark, Jr.
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