Surprise! Here are some new Childish Gambino tracks, including an Ariana Grande collaboration
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It’s always nice when you can wake up to some good news, huh? Well, leave it to Donald Glover to give us all a reason to get out of bed this morning… or to go on our phones/computer/tablets/Black Mirror-style AR lenses at least. As reported by Billboard, Glover—as his musical alter ego Childish Gambino, naturally—released what seems to be an entire new album on the website donaldgloverpresents.com. That’s the only place you can find it, as it’s not available on streaming services or anything yet, and also there’s no track information or even playback controls. You just put on the music and let it go, which is kind of cool and relaxing in what is otherwise a very modern release strategy.
Speaking of, it seems likely that a more traditional version of this album (Donald Glover Presents appears to be the name of it), as the website’s single image specifically refers to it as cover art and some of the tracks have been previously released (2018's “Feels Like Summer” and 2019's “Algorythm” are both on this thing). That in particular would be a weird move if this was just a musical website, but it’s not so weird if you’re trying to fill out an album. That’s the extent of what we know right now, so just put on some headphones, crank up these tunes, and wait until we have some more good news to talk about.
Update: Well, hopefully you listened to the tracks, because they’re gone now. The website now simply shows the Donald Glover Presents title and… nothing else. Clearly there’s something afoot, and we are here for it. News about pop culture and not anything else going on in the world! Hooray!
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Oh wow, two of my fav artists that I’d never thought would work together in Gambino and Grande? That is indeed welcome news this terrible Sunday morning.And I weirdly love the strategy of the website being the first platform to listen to his music. It’s a bit strange to not be able to select the songs to hear, or see their title, but I bet he wanted us to listen to it sequentially by just playing the whole thing back to back. The album “artwork” doesn’t really do much do assuage my recent societal anxieties, though…
FYI, Ariana and Childish have done a song together on her second album.
How many of the tracks are re-imaginations of This Is America?
Oh yes.This is what my stereo needed today, especially with this fantastic image splashed on my wall TV.
#awesome
Childish Gambino…released what seems to be an entire new album on the website donaldgloverpresents.com.
That’s the only place you can find it, as it’s not available on
streaming services or anything yet, and also there’s no track
information or even playback controls. You just put on the music and let
it go, which is kind of cool and relaxing in what is otherwise a very
modern release strategy.
Really? It looks more like my grandfather is his IT department.
These days it’s hard to believe Donald Glover is Troy Barnes. …ya come a long way baby. Err… Child… ish.
Went to the site earlier and the album artwork was there with music playing, but now just get “Donald Glover Presents” displayed on the site.
So there’s music you can’t listen to.
That’s alternative to alternative.
Donald Glover is this modern age’s most withholding celebrity. It’s almost like he lacks his peers’ overwhelming need to be loved.