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2016 studio anthology by Childish Gambino

"Awaken, My Dear!"
Studio anthology by Childish Gambino
Released	December 2, 2016 (2016-12-02)
Studio	Conway (Hollywood) ELBO (Glendale)
Genre	R&B[ane] soul[2] funk[3] psychedelic soul[4] psychedelic funk[5] psychedelic rock[6]
Length	48:57
Label	Glassnote
Producer	Donald Glover Ludwig Göransson
Childish Gambino chronology
STN MTN / Kauai (2014) "Awaken, My Honey!" (2016) Summer Pack (2018)
Singles from "Awaken, My Love!"
"Me and Your Mama" Released: November 10, 2016 "Redbone" Released: November 17, 2016 "Terrified" Released: September 19, 2017

"Awaken, My Beloved!" is the third studio album by American recording artist Donald Glover, under his phase name Childish Gambino. It was released past Glassnote Records on December 2, 2016. Consisting of tracks being sung rather than rapped, its fusion of psychedelic soul, funk and R&B influences was considered a bold departure from the predominantly hip hop style of his prior work. The anthology was produced past Glover and his longtime collaborator, Ludwig Göransson.

"Awaken, My Love!" received more often than not positive reviews from critics and debuted at number five on the US Billboard 200. The album was supported by 3 singles, "Me and Your Mama", "Redbone" and "Terrified". It received Grammy Award nominations for Anthology of the Year and All-time Urban Contemporary Album at the 2018 Grammy Awards. The single "Redbone" also earned nominations for Record of the Year, Best R&B Song, and won the Grammy Award for All-time Traditional R&B Performance.

Groundwork [edit]

On June 17, 2016, after a hiatus from social media, Glover tweeted "pharos.earth", a link to download his new app. The app itself placed the user in outer space looking at a small blueish planet while a clock counted down to nada. The app and so had the user crash downwards from space, placing them on a map that was located on Joshua Tree, California. The app then showed the dates of his upcoming performances in Joshua Tree, where the user could also purchase tickets. The concert festival was to debut the album and give the audience the "full-album feel". From September 3 to 5, nearly three months before the release of his anthology, Glover held three concert performances at Joshua Tree to debut the album. Glover wore glow-in-the-dark paint on his braids and a pink and yellow skirt, with his bandmates wearing similar attire. He performed eleven songs during the concert with minimal rapping, mainly featuring a funk/jazz vibe.^{[7] [8]}

Glover modified his Pharos app upon its release so that users could lookout man the success of his first lead single, "Me and Your Mama" at Joshua Tree through a telephone virtual reality lens.^[9]

Cover artwork [edit]

The cover of "Awaken, My Love!" features a photograph by New York City-based creative director Ibra Ake, in which model Giannina Oteto wears a beaded headdress designed past Laura Wass of WXYZ Jewelry.^{[10] [xi]} Prior to the album's release, the comprehend artwork was included equally an easter egg in the episode "Juneteenth" of Glover'south FX series Atlanta.^[12]

Singles [edit]

"Me and Your Mama" was released as the album's lead single on Beats 1 radio and the iTunes Shop on November ten, 2016,^{[13] [14]} while "Redbone" was released a week later, premiering on Annie Mac's Hottest Record on BBC Radio ane.^{[15] [16]} On September 19, 2017, "Terrified" was sent to urban contemporary radio as the album's third single.^[17]

Critical reception [edit]

Professional ratings

Amass scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	seven.iv/x[eighteen]
Metacritic	77/100[19]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The A.Five. Club	A−[3]
The Guardian	[20]
The Irish gaelic Times	[21]
Mojo	[22]
The Observer	[23]
Pitchfork	7.2/10[24]
Q	[25]
Rolling Stone	[26]
XXL	4/5[27]

"Awaken, My Love!" was met with generally positive reviews. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional person publications, the anthology received an average score of 77, based on 25 reviews.^[19] Aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave it 7.four out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus.^[18]

Mosi Reeves of Rolling Rock wrote that ""Awaken, My Love!" is an enthralling trip into the land of funk",^[26] while Dan Bogosian from The A.V. Gild wrote "Is Childish Gambino suddenly the new Prince, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist always prepare to go on the world an arm's length away from knowing what he'southward thinking? Is he D'Angelo, a soul god fighting against his first image with all-time neat music? No. He is Donald Glover, a man who can perform and write comedy, human activity in drama, and drop a truly wonderful anthology on brusque notice with all the influences and instructions spelled out".^[3] Perry Kostidakis of the FSView & Florida Flambeau wrote that "with each successive album, Childish Gambino has exhibited phenomenal growth, just no more than on his latest release. Unflinchingly ambitious and boldly different, "Awaken, My Love" calls dorsum the sounds and themes of the 1970s funkadelic movement to provide a wholly original, emotional and immersive musical feel",^[28] with The Guardian 'due south Gwilym Mumford calculation "but the limitations of his phonation occasionally allow him down – he doesn't quite take the range to nail Awaken 's more ostentatious vocal lines. However, it's a minor gripe when there's so much hither to enjoy".^[20] Jon Pareles of The New York Times said, "It's at in one case a homage and a parody, equally aware of that era'southward excesses and its glories, of the mode that the most memorable 1970s R&B merged sensuality, activism, sense of humor, toughness, outlandishness, futurism, soul roots, wild eccentricity and utopian customs spirit. That's an extremely high bar, but at its best, "Awaken, My Dearest!" recalls many of those virtues".^[29] Tim Sendra of AllMusic said, ""Awaken, My Honey!" is a stone-cold boom from get-go to end".^[1]

Matthew Strauss of Pitchfork said, "There are times, even so, when that nodding feels more like mimicry than anything else. Maybe he'll figure out how to smuggle Donald Glover's heart into Childish Gambino's encephalon eventually, simply if he hasn't figured out what he wants out of Childish Gambino notwithstanding, it's increasingly rewarding watching him try".^[24] Scott Glaysher of XXL said, "Childish Gambino gets definite props for pushing the envelope and refusing to operate within any genre confinements on this refreshing 49-infinitesimal trip through the funkadelic 1970s. While these blurred lines make this album a lilliputian difficult to follow, "Awaken, My Love!" proves his versatility as a rapper turning over a new leafage".^[27] Kitty Empire of The Observer said, "Throughout, Glover'due south genre fluency is unimpeachable; the merely small-scale drawback is the overmannered air of some of these menstruum pieces, where at that place could exist more than directly-up abandon, as on the persuasive 'Me and Your Mama'".^[23] Vice negatively described the album equally "pure Funkadelic cosplay".^[30] Critic Robert Christgau regarded the album as "a seriously overrated piece of romantic P-Funk retro that owes its Grammy nomination to Atlanta".^[31]

Year-end lists [edit]

Manufacture awards [edit]

Commercial performance [edit]

"Awaken, My Love!" debuted at number v on the US Billboard 200 with 101,000 anthology-equivalent units, marking the third highest debut of the calendar week.^[37] It was the fourth all-time-selling album of the week, selling 72,000 copies co-ordinate to Nielsen SoundScan.^[38] The album was likewise streamed 41.5 million times in the first calendar week.^[39] Information technology is Glover's highest-charting anthology.^[37] As of December 28, 2016, the album has sold 151,000 album-equivalent units, with 100,000 in concrete album sales.^[40] On September 27, 2018, the album was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Clan of America (RIAA) for combined sales, streaming and track-sales equivalent of a 1000000 units in the United states.^[41]

Track listing [edit]

All lyrics written past Donald Glover, except "Zombies" by Glover and Ludwig Göransson; all music composed and produced by Glover and Göransson, except where noted.^[42]

"Awaken, My Honey!" track listing

No.	Title	Music	Producer(s)	Length
ane.	"Me and Your Mama"	Glover Göransson Zac Rae		6:19
2.	"Have Some Love"	Glover Chris Hartz Sam Sugarman	Glover Göransson[a]	3:44
3.	"Boogieman"			3:36
4.	"Zombies"	Glover Göransson Hartz Ray Suen		iv:41
5.	"Anarchism"	Glover George Clinton Edward Hazel Clarence Eugene Haskins	Glover Göransson[a]	2:05
half-dozen.	"Redbone"	Glover Göransson William Earl Collins Clinton Gary Cooper		five:26
7.	"California"			2:45
viii.	"Terrified"			4:15
9.	"Baby Boy"			6:22
10.	"The Night Me and Your Mama Met"	Glover Göransson Gary Clark Jr.	Glover Göransson Clark Jr.	3:34
11.	"Stand Alpine"			six:ten
Total length:				48:57

Notes

• ^{^[a]} signifies an boosted producer

Sample credits

• "Anarchism" contains a sample of "Proficient to Your Earhole" by Funkadelic.

Personnel [edit]

Credits adapted from the album'due south liner notes.^[42]

Musicians

• Donald Glover – vocals (on all tracks exc. x), percussion (tracks 1–four, vii, 8), drums (6), glockenspiel (6, eight, ten), bottles (vii)
• Ludwig Göransson – bass (1–3, 6, 7, 9–11), guitar (1, 3, 4, 6–8, 11), synths (one, 2, 6), Rhodes (3, six, 11), Wurlitzer (6, 7, 9), drum programming (3, eight), mellotron (iii), synth bass and harpsichord (4), cello banjo (6), B3 organ, percussion and bottles (7), synth programming and groundwork vocals (8)
• Chris Hartz – drums (ane, 2, four, 7, 9), bass guitar and Rhodes (4), percussion (7)
• Ray Suen – guitar (i, 4, vii, 8, nine), synth FX and pianoforte (4)
• Brent Jones and the Best Life Singers – choir (ane, 2, 4, 10, 11)
• Lynette Williams – B3 organ (one, 2, 9), clavinet (nine)
• Zac Rae – moog synthesizer (1, five, 8), B3 organ (1, 8)
• Per Gunnar Juliusson – Rhodes (one, eight), piano (1)
• Thomas Drayton – bass guitar (1, viii)
• blackness political party – pulsate programming (1)
• Sam Sugarman – guitar (2)
• Kari Faux – additional vocals (4)
• Sofia Hoops – background vocals (v)
• JD McCrary – boy soloist (8)
• Gary Clark Jr. – guitar (ten)
• Julie Burkert and Steve Kujala – flute (11)
• Dan Higgins and Phil O'Connor – clarinet (11)
• Thomas Parish – woodwind organisation (11)

Production

• Donald Glover – production
• Ludwig Göransson – production (all exc. 2, v, ten), boosted product (ii, 5), mixing (three, 11), additional mixing (4, six, 7)
• Gary Clark Jr. – product (10)
• Ruben Rivera – recording
• Riley Mackin – recording, mixing (1–7, 9–11)
• Bernie Grundman – mastering
• John Armstrong – organ, keyboard, synths and five-drums recording (1)
• Bryan Carrigan – choir recording
• Chris Fogel – woodwind recording (11)
• Peter Rotter – woodwind contracting (11)
• Andrew Dawson – mixing (8)

Design

• Ibra Ake – photography, art direction
• Soukena Roussi – co-creative direction and styling
• WXYZ – jewelry design
• Sheri Pinto – makeup
• Brad Ogbanna – lighting

Managerial

• Donald Glover – executive product
• Ludwig Göransson – executive production

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Encounter as well [edit]

• List of Billboard number-i R&B/hip-hop albums of 2016

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External links [edit]

• awakenmylove.com

wolfenbargerentioncesay.blogspot.com

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Awaken,_My_Love%21%22

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