It’s Time Saying goodbye to Childish Gambino, Donald Glover made it official on Friday. Bandō Stone and the New WorldThis is Childish Gambino’s sixth and final album.
“This is a big breakup album,” he told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1.
The 17-track LP includes singles “In the Night” and “Lithonia,” both featuring Jorja Smith and Amalae, and is intended to be the soundtrack album for the film of the same name. A Quiet Place: Day 1 It’s also set to premiere at the 2024 BET Awards earlier this summer. Glover has yet to release the film, and it’s unclear when it will be released.
“Soundtracks force you to participate. I think most other things don’t. They force you to use your imagination,” he told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “All soundtracks force you to participate. A lot of things don’t. I think that’s why a lot of them feel flat.”
Ghanaian-American star Amalae features heavily on the record on album opener “H3@rt$ W3re M3@nt T0 F7¥,” “In the Night” and “Talk My Shit” with Flo Milli. The album also features collaborations with Chloe on “Survive” and Yate on “Cruisin’.” Glover also features vocals from his seven-year-old son Legend on the track “Can You Feel Me.”
Glover will be taking the album on tour with him on his New World Tour later this year, and he hints that the album is “made for arena rock” and intended to be played live.
“If this live show isn’t the best live show you’ve ever seen on the first song, you get your money back,” Glover said. “Listen to all these songs and you’ll understand. We’re going to add all these new songs. We’re going to add all these new technology. But the live event is what’s worth it to me.”
Glover was the first to announce Bando stone In April, he revealed that he would be releasing two albums as his final project under the name Childish Gambino. AtavistaBut after that there’s the final Childish Gambino album, Soundtrack for the Fans,” he said at the time. Atavista It served as the official re-release (and partial re-envisioning) of 2020 3.15.20.
While promoting the album, Glover dropped hints about the new album on his Instagram Live. “I feel like people aren’t having enough fun… I feel bad for people because there were big things that happened when I was a kid that brought us together,” he said of the album last month. “I feel bad for some of you.”
Glover spoke to Huffington Post during a promotional event for his show in 2017. Atlanta He intended to retire the stage name someday.
“There’s nothing worse than having a third sequel, a third movie, and being like, ‘Again?'” he said. “I love it when good things come back. There’s a reason they come back, there’s a reason they do it.”