#atavista

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childish gambino to be hunted

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Childish Gambino - To Be Hunted (Official Music Video)

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ 𓈒 ⠀⠀ atavista. 𑁍 "( – ⌓ – )

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Atavista, Childish Gambino (2024)

Can’t shine a flaming hot pile of stinky shit, as they say. But perhaps Atavista is actually worse than its rough draft 3.15.20; at least with that you expected shoddiness. From its vacuous, oblivious politics to its tepid attempts at instrumental quirk, this is a very slick sort of bad. 

Pick: ‘Atavista’

[ezzyuhh]

is anybody weird about donald glover here or will i be yelling into the void when i talk about him because i have Intense Feelings about him

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ATAVISM: recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination; recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity.

Atavism derives via French from Latin atavus, meaning "ancestor." Avus in Latin means "grandfather," and it's believed that the at is related to atta, a word for "daddy."

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Song of the Day: May 31, 2024

Childish Gambino: Final Church Final Church on Amazon Prime Music It’s funky Friday, and no current drummer is funkier than Nate Smith. Smith is a prolific studio musician, 3-time Grammy nominee, and founding member of the funk group Fearless Flyers. Fearless Flyers include Joe Dart (bass) and Cory Wong (guitar) of Vulfpeck, so you know that Smith is a funk monster. He is also the drummer on…

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sorry it's not HD (yet) but you need to watch this

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Childish Gambino - Atavista

I’ve made it no secret that I love Donald Glover, but ever since I saw Glover as Troy Barnes on Community in 2009, I knew that he was destined for greatness. Around the same time, Glover was doing a few other things: he was working on a sketch comedy YouTube channel, writing for 30 Rock, and most importantly, working on a burgeoning music career with the name Childish Gambino. With a name he supposedly got through a Wu-Tang name generator, I didn’t hear anything he put out until 2011 with his debut studio album Camp. I remember being 17 and hearing “Bonfire” for the first time, and my mind was blown from how catchy and clever his music was, especially for someone that hadn’t listened to rap music yet.

My enthusiasm did not share that of a lot of others, because Camp was not a well-received album. It’s gotten a cult following over the last handful of years, but it’s taken people the last decade to really get on board with Donald Glover as a rapper. 2016’s Awaken, My Love was the first time people collectively took his music seriously, but it was too long overdue. Since then, Glover released another mixtape and EP, along with the huge single “This Is America,” but he did quietly release an unfinished and unmastered project called 3.15.20 that a lot of people either didn’t know existed or forgot about completely.

I include myself in that, because I never really listened to it, unfortunately. The album didn’t have any song titles, only time stamps, and because the album wasn’t finished at all, I didn’t listen to it at all. Glover has said that he only released the album because he thought everyone was going to die, and understandably so. Recently he randomly announced that he was releasing a finished version of the album, only to surprisingly drop it on Sunday, May 13th. I was absolutely thrilled, because I’ve been wanting to hear a finished version of this album for years, now entitled Atavista.

Adding the title track and another “new” song, the fan favorite “Human Sacrifice” from 2018/2019, and removing a couple of songs (as well as adding some new guest features on the preexisting songs), the new album is here, so how is it? As I said, I never got into the original version, but if you’re discovering this for the first time, like a lot of people are, this is almost a transcendental experience. Atavista is one of the best albums of the year, if not one of the best of the 2020s so far. Hearing the finished version of this record has been an absolute treat, because it’s one of my favorite Childish Gambino records, and it may be one of his best.

This record both invokes some new ideas for Glover and a lot of subtle callbacks to his work throughout the last 15 years. It mainly has a funk, soul, and R&B sound akin to his last couple of projects, but there are moments where Glover raps and moves into some psychedelic and experimental stuff from Because The Internet. This album reminds me a lot of a mix between Prince, Michael Jackson, and an unfortunate reference, Kanye West. Make no mistake, I’m talking about Kanye circa 2004, not currently Kanye, but it’s also more so in his use of retro-leaning soul, funk, and R&B with modern textures.

Atavista has the interesting quality of where every song sounds pretty similar, but they’ve also got their own identities at the same time. The hooks on this record are quite nice, and Glover is the best vocally he’s ever sounded. This record is wonderful, and easily worth hearing if you’re a fan, or you want a catchy R&B / hip-hop record. I can see myself playing this a ton during the summer, because this is some perfect summer music. It’s also just one of my favorite albums of the year so far, and I can see it being awfully high on the list come December.

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GA floor tix for Gambino😭😭😭 legendary night on deck

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🎵I’m hoping, praying we are together

No matter the weather, I get lost sometimes🎵

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Childish Gambino - The Violence (Audio)

[chaosinstigator]

he dropped human sacrifice I’m😭

[stephaniejuhnay]

Donald released Human Sacrifice.

I AM SCREAMING I AM CRYING I AM ON THE FLOOR