Atavista

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For year, Childish Gambino’s <i>Atavista</i> hid in plain sight. When he released an unfinished version of the record on March 15, 2020, it spent just 12 hours on his website before he pulled it down. Reappearing on streaming a week later as <i>3.15.20</i>, the project brought up almost as many questions as sparkling neo-soul anthem, which still sounded slicker than the average as raw cuts titled after timestamp. Flash forward to 2024 and Donald Glover has upgraded and updated <i>3.15.20</i> with added track. He worked closely with Los Angeles producer DJ Dahi and Swedish producer and esteemed film and TV composer Ludwig Göransson, a longtime collaborator, to set a sumptuous tone seated back between the ’70s funk reverence of 2016’s <i>“Awaken, My Love!”</i> and the smooth Caribbean-inflected soul of 2014’s <i>Kauai</i>. Features from Ariana Grande, 21 Savage, and Summer Walker soar on reinvigorated mixe, while “Little Foot Big Foot” features a spotlight-ready Young Nudy, finding Gambino’s eye still fixed towards the future of the regional scene he portrayed in vivid color on FX’s <i>Atlanta</i>. .

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