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A couple tracks did sound reworked compared to their live counterparts but I enjoyed “ Awaken, My Love!” immensely. I attended Pharos this past Summer where he debuted the album in its entirety and also debuted the first three episodes of Atlanta before its televised release. I’m a huge fan of Donald Glover and all his projects. I thought the album was flat out amazing. The album concludes with clean and inspiring vocals from Glover on “Stand Tall”, urging the listener to “keep all your dreams, keep standing tall” and to “smile when you can”. “The Night Me and Your Mama Met” has no lyrics but the choir returns over a scratch-guitar instrumental that features an amazing guitar solo reminiscent of Funkadelic’s “Maggot Brain”. It’s used stylistically rather than a crutch in songs like “Boogieman”, “Zombies”, and the bubbly “California”. There is sporadic use of auto-tune throughout the album but not enough to beat the listener to death with. Glover’s voice and style of singing changes from song to song, emulating George Clinton to Prince.

Filled with raw wails and primal screams alongside a gospel choir, right off that bat you know that this is no ordinary Childish Gambino record. The album begins and immediately takes you on a roller-coaster of sound with the stellar first single, “Me and Your Mama”. “I remember hearing a Funkadelic scream and being like, ‘Wow, that’s sexual and it’s scary.’ Not having a name for that, though just having a feeling. In an interview with Billboard, Glover described how these groups influenced him and his vision for the new album. “ Awaken, My Love!” is heavily influenced by funk legends Parliament-Funkadelic, Sly and the Family Stone, and The Isley Brothers. After a home run first season of his show Atlanta on FX, which Glover wrote, produced, and starred in, comes the last thing anyone expected from the quirky rapper: a completely sung P-Funk album. “ Awaken, My Love!” is the third studio album from artist Childish Gambino, also known as writer and actor Donald Glover. This album is Childish Gambino’s “ Awaken, My Love!”. This album is a funkified force of nature. This album is a throwback to black music of the 60s and 70s. This album is for his newborn child and the woman he loves. Be forewarned my friends, this album is not going to be for everyone. I kind of missed out on the psychedelic funk. “With this, as a musician I have a jazz and classical and blues background, but I still had to do the research on the funk part.

“When I worked with Donald on Camp, I hadn’t produced much hip-hop before, so I had to kind of soak in that and do my research on that,” he says. Goransson, who was born and raised in Sweden and moved to Los Angeles in 2007, admits he wasn’t the most versed in funk and psych-soul traditions before Glover introduced him to P-Funk and Sly and the Family Stone records. I think that opened up a lot of new doors for us.” “But it was also taking a step away from computers and to have the whole recording process filled with more air and live performances. “The whole album started out with me, Donald and a couple musicians just being in the studio together for a week and basically just experimenting, Donald just kind of being open to anything,” Goransson says. Hot Off 'Atlanta,' Donald Glover Prepares for 'Star Wars' & Childish Gambino's Funkadelic-Inspired…

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The song is an unmistakable nod to George Clinton‘s seminal psych-funk collective - particularly Funkadelic’s early 1969-1975 output, before Parliament‘s party-funk horns and swirling Moogs replaced gritty guitars as the main driver of the groove - and steers home an influence that pops up again and again all over the album. What Goransson sees as a natural evolution - one that started with Glover expanding beyond just rapping on 2013’s Because the Internet, and continued with more sung vocals on 2014’s Kauai - caught most people by surprise when “Me and Your Mama” was released as Awaken‘s first single in November. “There are small little ingredients and notes that are very well-thought-out, arrangement-wise, and there’s a lot of ear candy in there happening… I feel like it’s kind of the natural evolution of sound.” “We actually built a drum room in Donald’s house just to get the exact drum sound we wanted it took a couple weeks to build,” says producer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Ludwig Goransson, who co-wrote and and co-produced the entirety of Awaken, My Love! and has worked with Glover for nearly a decade.

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