{"id":3463,"date":"2016-12-28T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T15:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/?p=3463"},"modified":"2016-12-28T11:10:48","modified_gmt":"2016-12-28T16:10:48","slug":"albums-you-should-love-childish-gambino-awaken-my-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/2016\/12\/28\/albums-you-should-love-childish-gambino-awaken-my-love\/","title":{"rendered":"[Albums You Should Love] Childish Gambino &#8211; &#8220;Awaken, My Love!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3464\" src=\"http:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/awakenmylove-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/awakenmylove-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/awakenmylove-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/awakenmylove-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/awakenmylove.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Childish Gambino\u00a0<\/strong>released his third studio album,\u00a0<em>Awaken, My Love!\u00a0<\/em>on December 2nd. His last album, B<em>ecause the Internet\u00a0<\/em>was released in 2011. The artists\/musicians\/songwriters credited on the album are\u00a0<strong>George Clinton<\/strong>, <strong>Gary Clark Jr.<\/strong>, <strong>Ludwig G\u00f6ransson<\/strong>, <strong>Brent Jones and the Best Life Singers<\/strong>. Also, recognition of the session musicians credited as well. (<strong>Lynette Williams<\/strong>, <strong>Julia Burkert<\/strong>, <strong>Thomas Drayton<\/strong>, and many others.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This album is straight new space-aged funk, with revisits to the greats like <strong>Sly Stone<\/strong> with&#8221;Have Some Love&#8221;, \u00a0and <strong>George Clinton\/Funkadelics<\/strong> &#8220;Boogieman&#8221;, &#8220;Zombies&#8221;, and &#8220;Riot&#8221;. Also, <strong>Bootsy Collins\/Bootsy&#8217;s Rubber Band<\/strong> with &#8220;RedBone&#8221;. \u00a0The theme of the album seemed like a good mix of R&amp;B melodies, and lyrics impressively giving abstract messages of love, hate, police brutality, and blended families. Distorted falsettos, vintage synths, and late 60&#8217;s\/70&#8217;s psychedelic styled funk\/rock instrumentation are playful, energetic, and filled with personality. To say this album is unexpectedly great would be an understatement. <strong>Questlove<\/strong> calls it being sucker punched musically. Those sentiments can be concurred because Jesus Tyrone Christ. This is a straight mind blowing album.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Awaken, My Love!\u00a0<\/em>is in stores now; also available on all digital outlets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Boogieman\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/6D2w3GPnTpLJt56dHEIuWW?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n<script>\nvar zbPregResult = '0';\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Childish Gambino\u00a0released his third studio album,\u00a0Awaken, My &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[44,401,453,443,365,455,454],"class_list":["post-3463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-albums-you-should-love","tag-album-review","tag-albums-you-should-love","tag-awaken","tag-childish-gambino","tag-gary-clark-jr","tag-george-clinton","tag-my-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3463\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soulsavviness.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}