![]() ![]() But for now, “ Awaken, My Love!” is an enthralling trip into the land of funk. Only time will tell if Childish Gambino has remade himself into the post-millennial D’Angelo. Is “ Awaken, My Love!” just a fantastic conceit? There’s some evidence of that: The themes of “Baby Boy,” which slinks along like an outtake from Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Going On, and the Eddie Hazel-like scratch-guitar instrumental “The Night Me and Your Mama Met,” sound as if they could be coming from the mind of Earn Marks, the Princeton dropout, babydaddy and would-be rap manager at the center of Atlanta. ![]() When he serenades a girl moving to the Golden State over the kitschy calypso beat of “California,” it adds well-timed comic levity to his heavy soul odyssey. The wah-wah guitars and rolling percussion of “Riot” crackle with psychedelic energy. We recommend giving all 11 emotional gospel songs a departure from the artist's previous. On “Have Some Love,” he swings with a leisurely gait akin to Funkadelic’s “Can You Get To That” as he implores us, “Have some time for one another/Really love one another.” He subtly underlines his excursions with a message: “Stay woke … now don’t you close your eyes,” he cries in a high, Prince-like falsetto on “Redbone,” a spacy boogie exploration that thumps with thick lowrider bass. Childish Gambino, aka actor Donald Glover, released his third studio album, Awaken, My Love Friday. Whether it’s rocking his best George Clinton impression over the platform boot stomp of “Boogieman,” or delivering a deep-hued spoken word manifesto on “Baby Boy,” Childish Gambino fully inhabits his funkadelic guise.
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