![]() ![]() Don’t get me wrong, the artist certainly cares. The result is an experiment in time travel: Through sounds of the past, he captures the tensions of the present. Childish Gambino is an artist that doesn’t really care whether or not people are talking about his music. ![]() Coming from an artist known for taut wordplay and manically constructed similes, the broad strokes of Awaken are a shift: You’ll think eventually, but mood comes first.Īnd in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests that followed the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and so many more, Glover’s choice to echo a period in Black music when artists took on an explicitly revolutionary cast is a canny complement to albums like Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Solange Knowles’ A Seat at the Table, both of which explored Black identity with new urgency.
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