Bando Stone and The New World - Childish Gambino: Review
Childish Gambino is an artist whose career has taken him through a dynamic range of sounds and styles. From the humor-laced hip hop of the still solid Because The Internet to the Funkadelic soul of the excellent Awaken My Love , calling Gambino a "rapper" has been increasingly inadequate of a classification as the years go by. Earlier this year Gambino shares ATAVISTA , a finished, and marginally improved version of his divisive 2020 album. But that merely set the table to Bando Stone, which has been marketed as the "final" Childish Gambino album. To be completely honest, I think the Bando Stone era got off to a great start. Lead single Lithonia is easily the best song here and that was obvious to me from the very first time I heard it. It piles one catchy refrain after another on top of a roaring rock instrumental to great results. He also shared In The Night which is a pretty nice song that gets solid contributions from Amaarae and Jorja Smit...