Childish Gambino Drops ‘Atavista’ Album and ‘Little Foot Big Foot’ Video
Donald Glover shared some new aged music on Monday morning (May possibly 13) when he unleashed his new Childish Gambino venture Atavista (3.15.20 reimagined variations). “New” is a relative time period for the 11-track choice, which the actor/rapper defined the “finished version of 3.15.20, the album I put out 4 years ago.”
Indeed, Atavista is a refresh of the 2020 Gambino album 3.15.20, which was initially uploaded in an unfinished point out to donaldgloverpresents.com ideal ahead of it was taken off and then re-uploaded to streaming web-sites a 7 days afterwards underneath it closing title. A variety of tunes on Atavista look to be very equivalent, if not precisely the very same as these individuals on the preceding release, collectively with “Algorhythm,” the Ariana Grande-showcasing “Time” and other folks with visitor locations from 21 Savage, Ink and Kadhja Bonet (“Psilocybae”) and Summer time Walker (“Sweet Thang”) the 50-minute job does characteristic the new futuristic title track, which opens with chaotic synth squiggles ahead of settling into a classic Gambino soul serenade, as completely as the modern robotic funk track “Human Sacrifice.”
Even even though supporter favored dreamy solitary “Feels Like Summer” is off the roster, Atavista is obtaining fronted by extremely hot jazz hop burner “Little Foot Big Foot” featuring Young Nudy (previously recognised as “35.21” on the 3.15.20 album). In addition to a new title, the track will get its personal video clip as completely, a black-and-white narrative directed by Glover’s recurrent collaborator, Hiro Murai, that incorporates a cameo from Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary).
The six-moment clip opens with Gambino and his crew exhibiting up to a Cotton Club-style nightclub as doo wop trio Johnny and the Pipes, with a warning from Brunson to not make eye make contact with with every person in the entrance row. Actively playing to an unimpressed house, Gambino busts into the song’s irresistible chorus as he and his compatriots tear up the flooring with moves that borrow inspiration from every person from Beyoncé to Taxi Calloway.
In popular Glover style, matters go radically awry, as the trio earn the house about in the most surprising way and the scene shifts to a shot of Nudy dropping his verses in the darkish beneath the desert stars.
In a assertion, Glover reported most of the tracks on Atavista are spruced-up versions of the very same music from the former album, noting that there is also a “special vinyl coming before long w/visuals for each tune.”
Past month Glover introduced that he was preparing the final two Gambino initiatives, with Atavista to be adopted by the soundtrack to his impending film, Bando Stone & the New Environment.
Listen to Atavista and seeing the “Little Foot Huge Foot” video below.