Childish Gambino Announces Two New Albums

Fresh off a shock physical appearance at Coachella, Childish Gambino —a.k.a. Donald Glover —has declared two new albums, which provide as his very first new solo projects in four many years subsequent 2020’s 3.15.20. Past calendar year, he dropped an EP showcasing Ni’jah for Swarm, his horror series that aired on Prime Online video.

It was a active weekend for the actor-rapper. On Saturday, he was a surprise guest all through Tyler, the Creator’s headlining established, in which the two performed “Running Out of Time” from 2019’s Igor.

On Sunday, Gambino took to social media to share that new new music was on the way by using a livestream that broadcast at 2 a.m. ET on Monday early morning. “GILGA Radio tonight @ 11 pm pst,” he teased on X, formerly acknowledged as Twitter. “live streamed on Instagram @donaldglover.” A enthusiast requested, “Music??” to which Glover responded, “of system. It’s a rollout dummy.”

“We’re releasing Atavista, but just after that, there’s the closing Childish Gambino album — a soundtrack for the supporters,” he unveiled in the course of the broadcast, by means of Uproxx. His Instagram Reside incorporated a teaser for the unique soundtrack to Bando Stone & the New Environment, which he claimed will be the final Gambino album.

Gambino has been teasing a new album for several months, telling TMZ past December that an album is coming “shortly.

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He experienced earlier reported he was retiring the Childish Gambino moniker, telling HuffPo in the course of a promo celebration for Atlanta in 2017, “There’s almost nothing even worse than like a 3rd sequel, like a third movie, and we’re like, ‘again?’” he claimed. “You know, I like it when something’s superior and when it will come back again there is a purpose to occur back, there is a purpose to do that.”

He extra at the time: “Like I feel like there is gotta be a rationale to do things, and I always experienced a cause to be punk,” he ongoing. “Being punk just generally felt truly fantastic to me, and we often seemed at ‘Atlanta’ as a punk display, and I really feel like the path I would go with Childish Gambino would not be punk any longer. As considerably as ‘Redbone’ is a punk song simply because it is a gospel track that is on the radio, I’m like there is only so much you can go in advance of you just are the radio.”