Childish Gambino’s much-anticipated Awaken, My Love! album is now available for streaming. The project is made up of 11 tracks including the singles “Redbone” and the opening track “Me and your Mama.”
The Atlanta artist premiered Awaken, My Love! at a special concert called Pharos Experience in Joshua Tree earlier this year. Fans can relive the show through virtual reality, Gambino has already released “Me and your Mama” through the Pharos app.
Awaken, My Love! is also being sold as a “virtual reality vinyl,” which is set to ship in 2017.
The actor, who works under the name Donald Glover in the film industry, just completed the first season of his FX show Atlanta.
Childish Gambino’s Awaken, My Love! album stream (via Apple Music) and Spotify, cover art and tracklist are below.
- Me and Your Mama
- Have Some Love
- Boogieman
- Zombies
- Riot
- Redbone
- California
- Terrified
- Baby Boy
- The Night Me and Your Mama Met
- Stand Tall
(This article was last updated November 9, 2016 and is as follows.)
Childish Gambino has confirmed his new album is called Awaken, My Love! He made a post on Twitter today (November 9) with what seems to be the project’s cover art. Fans had suspected the album details with an FYE listing saying the LP is due out December 2.
This comes after the rapper, who acts under the name Donald Glover, completed a successful first season of the FX show Atlanta and hosted the “Pharos Experience” sharing new music with his fans in September.
(This article was first published November 7, 2016 and is as follows.)
Childish Gambino (also known as Donald Glover) has had quite a year after writing, directing and starring in his own TV show Atlanta on FX — as well as being cast as the young Lando Calrissian in an upcoming Star Wars movie.
The Atlanta actor-rapper isn’t settling for success on the screen, however, and is expected to drop a new album at the start of December.
A release schedule in a local FYE lists December 2 as the release date for Childish Gambino’s follow-up to Because the Internet and appears to reveal the album’s title too: Awaken, My Love!
Reddit user _LucidDreams posted photographic evidence of the release schedule to r/DonaldGlover:
In case you can’t quite make it out, we’ve zoomed in on it for you:
Eagle-eyed fans have also noticed that the album appears to be available for pre-order on Amazon.com, though on the site, the album is simply titled Awaken My Love without any commas or exclamation marks. If the Amazon page is legit, then it looks like the album costs $11.39 to pre-order, but the page has since been taken down.
Gambino shared the “Pharos Experience” with fans in September where he performed his new music with a light show at Joshua Tree.
Since then, little word has dropped on the upcoming project. Donald Glover appeared on Ellen just last week but didn’t do any promo for it.
He is yet to tweet any official confirmation of the album’s title and release date, so watch this space.
Dude a great actor and rapper. Glad he getting back to rapping as well.
He can sing a little also, Atlanta was decent thought it could have been a little better, needs to be a hour instead of 30 minutes. The guys is pretty talented I hope he gets into directing movies or more shows
He’s not rapping the album.. He’s singing my dudes. Do y’all even listen to the shit before you comment?
really hope that lil yachty has a feature on here. they would make the GOAT song together
…or he doesnt, and that would be great too!
#TrollHarder
Is Chance the rapper gonna be on there, it’s been minutes since I’ve read about him here!?
I already got this album a week ago from an A&R I thought this was out already.
UNREAL!!!
You can feel the mans soul!!
Great to see someone to step out of the box, look forward to the visuals that are to follow!!
Have Some Love!!
you guys even listen to any of the tracks yet. i mean it dont sound like no music to me. like some african ritual shit to me. ijs
I take it you have never heard of funk music before?
Definitley not what I want to hear from him or in general but the talent is undeniable. Much respect to Donald
No one noticed that pic looks like Bernie Mac from Kings of Comedy when he was imitating his shuddering nephew?
This shit seem like it’s funky and soulful I think this will be the type of album that people had been waiting and hoping that Andre 3k would make.