![]() ![]() Here’s to flipped brains and always being delighted by the unexpected, at festivals, shows, listening to albums, and when experiencing a virtual reality vinyl for the first time. Vinyl Record by Childish Gambino with album Awaken, My Love (Limited Edition). The feeling of expecting water and getting lemonade. “I like sucker punches,” he said to Triple J radio. Gambino describes it as a “sucker punch,” but in a good way. ![]() Awaken, My Love! is, unsurprisingly, unlike any of that. He has released “two highly self-reflexive rap full-length albums, a Southern rap EP and a straight pop EP,” as Pitchfork describes. But I, for one, am certainly excited to see Childish Gambino try.Īnd there are few better albums to try it with than Awaken, My Love! It’s hard to classify which, given Glover’s history, makes sense. But music-fest lovers have to wonder whether it will be possible to translate the magic of a cell-phone-free festival to an experience anyone can have at any time. The account he gives makes it sound incredible. Brian Kinnes described the original PHAROS event as “a look inside Donald Glover’s brain: an entire universe he created for a small group of people to experience together” and then describes an event where aliens danced in synchronization above the crown and Gambino had glow-in-the-dark body paint and hair extensions. But Gambino’s PHAROS Earth app has also been updated with VR concert footage of him performing the first track from Awaken, My Love!, “Me and Your Mama.” The VR vinyl is likely to be some combination of these elements. Gambino is selling a limited edition vinyl package for his latest album Awaken, My Love that will include a virtual reality headset where you can watch an exclusive performance. Gambino’s website says that this version of Awaken, My Love! will drop in 2017 and will come on two 45 RPM heavyweight 12” vinyl records with an exclusive 17 x 11 poster. Just like Childish Gambino himself.īreaking down what a virtual reality vinyl might look like involves piecing together pieces. ![]() Which, frankly, sounds pretty awesome to us. He told an interviewer on Australia’s Triple J Radio that “it’s a vinyl that you play with virtual reality” and that it was designed to bring the experience of his PHAROS event to an even wider audience. If all you hear in this record is Maggot Brain imitated, and nothing new and creative, I would be surprised, because I found the differences between the two records, and the two funk outfits, to be quite stark. Childish Gambino - Awaken, My Love - Box set includes: Exclusive booklet - 2x heavyweight 45 RPM LPs - Virtual reality headset - Glow in the dark cover. Is It a Virtual Reality Album? A Show? A Record? Ask Childish Gambinoĭonald Glover, sometimes also known as Childish Gambino (really, depends on whom you ask and when) continues to prove that he’ll forever be the best kind of weird with his announcement that he will be releasing a virtual reality vinyl of his latest project, Awaken, My Love!Īs to what a virtual reality vinyl is exactly, Childish Gambino seemed long on creativity, short on explanations. But Awaken, My Love seems to me to be the first record of the modern hip-hopness to redefine afro-futurism, in a refreshing and new way. ![]()
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