Childish Gambino "Awaken, My Love!"
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TVC15
December 1st 2016


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Production is fantastic but it sounds a bit too much like Funkadelic for my liking.

Conmaniac
December 1st 2016


27676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Sounds too much like a classic funk album so it's not as good?

Conmaniac
December 1st 2016


27676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

idk if that logic makes any sense

alienobserver
December 1st 2016


4499 Comments


lol i dont get how detracting from it for being unoriginal is hard to grasp

TVC15
December 1st 2016


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

"Sounds too much like a classic funk album so it's not as good?"



Nah I mean it in the same way I'd say Defector by Muse is a good song but sounds too much like Queen. This is a great album but it borrows a little too much from the Funkadelic sound for my liking

Conmaniac
December 1st 2016


27676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

i feel like we have different ideas on what makes good music. originality is important but drawing upon influences in order to develop a style is more important to me

Conmaniac
December 1st 2016


27676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

which is why i love emo music so much because I realize they ripoff shit from the 90s but like I don't really care that much because the music itself is still amazing and hits hard. just because it sounds like another band doesn't take away from the fact that it's good. there is a point however where an album can sound like a straight ripoff but up until that point I don't factor that into my rating all that much

TVC15
December 1st 2016


11372 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Me and Your Mama is absolutely influenced by Funkadelic and even pulls from jazzy prog like King Crimson but it's executed very well because it manages to be very original. I'm trying to say that the way that it reminds me so much of Funkadelic and other psych-funk rubs me the wrong way, but obviously judging by my rating it does not cripple my enjoyment of the album to any great extent

Conmaniac
December 1st 2016


27676 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

gotchu fam. ill listen to this tomorrow im so pumped

literallyzach
December 1st 2016


520 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I do not like Childish Gambino at all but I'm interested to give this a listen.

TheSleepys
December 1st 2016


291 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

I'm not feeling it but I've never been the biggest Gambino fan anyway.

tellah
December 1st 2016


1262 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Great review! Really liked his last two albums, so I'm pretty stoked to hear this. Glad that it's more focused than BTI

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
December 1st 2016


47588 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7 | Sound Off

What a year to be a Donglover fan, Atlanta, Lando and now this. Very glad I boarded this bandwagon. Great review

JeetJeet
December 1st 2016


12160 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

I'm listening to California right now and I'm really not feeling these vocals. If he was using his normal voice or rapping on this track it would be 10x better.

JeetJeet
December 1st 2016


12160 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

But HOLY FUCK just put Riot on and GODDAMN THIS IS WHAT I'M HERE FOR

Rowan5215
Staff Reviewer
December 1st 2016


47588 Comments

Album Rating: 3.7 | Sound Off

California is easily the worst track here and would've been the best if he'd sung it unfiltered

Cygnatti
December 1st 2016


36020 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

have high hopes for this tbh

tre
December 1st 2016


321 Comments


I think California might be the song of the year.

JeetJeet
December 2nd 2016


12160 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

My eyes lit up when I heard Riot. Can't stop replaying that one.

RosaParks
December 2nd 2016


858 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

hopes for this were too high so i'm kind of disappointed. Feels like a 3-3.5 but I'm gonna leave it at a 4 because most of this guy's music grows on me



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