"Awaken, My Love!"

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You could argue that Childish Gambino became a great hip-hop artist when he stopped rapping, but that would be unfair. Weird bass sound in redbone but other than that it's pretty clear and well balanced; BG did a great job on this imo. His 2013 follow-up, Because the Internet, is remembered for when he harmonized wistfully on tracks like the hit single “3005. When I bought the record and (tried to) take it out, it stuck badly to the inner sleeve, which is made out of this plasticy material that seemed to have been designed to attract as much static as possible. WOW this packaging is way overdone, the box is as thick as a 5lp box set, for a VR headset that became obsolete in less than 5 years.

It was 2011's debut album Camp - his first since signing to Glassnote Records - which marked a breakthrough for Childish Gambino, whose music explores everything from identity, race, and technology to hip-hop culture, class, and family.is the third studio album by American recording artistDonald Glover, under his stage name Childish Gambino. I wonder if there's a lot of variability on the pressings, because what I have sounds fantastic, great range, no distortions, no noise. Whether it’s rocking his best George Clinton impression over the platform boot stomp of “Boogieman,” or delivering a deep-hued spoken word manifesto on “Baby Boy,” Childish Gambino fully inhabits his funkadelic guise. They put 25 min of music on one side and it's really audible how quickly the quality degrades because of it (usually the limit for a side is ~23 min due to the physics).

Main bad thing of note on this press is the extremely low volume - on the first track I had to crank it up to 75% whereas on most records I have, I can turn it up to ~45% to get the same volume. As it is not in shrink wrap but instead a resealable sleeve, it may indicate it could be Record Industry that has pressed this release. When he serenades a girl moving to the Golden State over the kitschy calypso beat of “California,” it adds well-timed comic levity to his heavy soul odyssey. Follow-up 'because the internet' went top 10 on the Billboard chart, was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards and further assimilated Gambino's multiple disciplines (it was accompanied, for instance, by two films and a standalone 72-page screenplay). Recorded at Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and crack team of a-list musicians, his upcoming album blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment.

With his 2014 EP Kauai, he barely rapped at all, instead offering a short suite of winningly pop meditations on summer romance. Comprised of various labels we know and love at Rough Trade (Bella Union, ATO, Speedy Wunderground, Phantasy, Heavenly, Mute and more) PIAS [Recordings] filter through some of the most diverse artistry to our racks, which we greatly enjoy digging into.

Gambino delves into the kind of grungy stanklove that OutKast once indulged in on their magnum opuses. I didn't have the issue of noise or crackling on mine, but as noted on other reviews for the other versions, mine seems VERY quiet compared to my other LPs. Now with a massively successful US tour opening for sweet soul darlings Thee Sacred Souls behind him, 2023 is sure to be a propitious year for Daptone's newest signee.

Originally hailing from Stone Mountain, Georgia - his Mum was a daycare provider and his Dad a postal worker, where TV was banned in the house - Glover first entered the spotlight as a member of sketch-troupe Derrick Comedy, via a stint working on The Daily Show and the invitation to join the '30 Rock' writing staff by Tina Fey before he'd even graduated from NYU. A routinely great artist, much of Sufjan's universal appeal comes from his skills as a gifted narrator, pairing personal musings on love and devotion with commentary on American culture, whilst welding folk and electronica, the ambient and existential. Some already anticipated his evolution – he debuted the project during his Pharos Festival at Joshua Tree, California last September.