Donald Glover shared some new previous music on Monday morning (Might 13) when he unleashed his new Infantile Gambino challenge Atavista (3.15.20 reimagined variations). “New” is a relative time period for the 11-track assortment, which the actor/rapper defined the “completed model of 3.15.20, the album I put out 4 years in the past.”
Certainly, Atavista is a refresh of the 2020 Gambino album 3.15.20, which was initially uploaded in an unfinished state to donaldgloverpresents.com earlier than it was eliminated after which re-uploaded to streaming websites every week later underneath it last title. Quite a lot of songs on Atavista seem like very related, if not precisely the identical as these on the earlier launch, together with “Algorhythm,” the Ariana Grande-featuring “Time” and others with visitor spots from 21 Savage, Ink and Kadhja Bonet (“Psilocybae”) and Summer season Walker (“Candy Thang”); the 50-minute challenge does function the brand new futuristic title observe, which opens with chaotic synth squiggles earlier than settling right into a basic Gambino soul serenade, in addition to the contemporary robotic funk observe “Human Sacrifice.”
Although fan favourite dreamy single “Feels Like Summer season” is off the roster, Atavista is being fronted by sizzling jazz hop burner “Little Foot Massive Foot” that includes Younger Nudy (previously generally known as “35.21” on the 3.15.20 album). Along with a brand new title, the tune will get its personal video as effectively, a black-and-white narrative directed by Glover’s frequent collaborator, Hiro Murai, that includes a cameo from Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary).
The six-minute clip opens with Gambino and his crew displaying as much as a Cotton Membership-style nightclub as doo wop trio Johnny and the Pipes, with a warning from Brunson to not make eye contact with anybody within the entrance row. Enjoying to an unimpressed room, Gambino busts into the tune’s irresistible refrain as he and his compatriots tear up the ground with strikes that borrow inspiration from everybody from Beyoncé to Cab Calloway.
In typical Glover style, issues go dramatically awry, because the trio win the room over in probably the most surprising approach and the scene shifts to a shot of Nudy dropping his verses at nighttime underneath the desert stars.
In a press release, Glover mentioned a lot of the songs on Atavista are spruced-up variations of the identical songs from the earlier album, noting that there’s additionally a “particular vinyl coming quickly w/visuals for every tune.”
Final month Glover introduced that he was making ready the ultimate two Gambino tasks, with Atavista to be adopted by the soundtrack to his upcoming film, Bando Stone & the New World.
Hearken to Atavista and watching the “Little Foot Massive Foot” video beneath.