Donald Glover Presents... a surprise new album?

While half the world was asleep, Donald Glover went and surprise dropped a new album outta nowhere for our streaming pleasure.

Update 22.03: The new Childish Gambino has been officially released, and it's titled 03.15.20. It's largely the same album as the surprise stream. More info in music news here.

Childish Gambino officially releases new album 3.15.20 Did you miss the DonaldGloverPresents.com surprise stream? No biggie, the new Gambino album has landed.

You won't find it on the usual platforms (for now), instead the new music is streaming on a loop at donaldgloverpresents.com (go hear for yourself)!

Update 16.03: The new music is no longer streaming on the website, but hey, this is the internet. We're sure you'll find other ways of hearing it if you dig around...

Accompanied by artwork that's a little ~too real~ given our current coronavirus fearing climate, the 12-track project seems to include features from SZA, Ariana Grande, 21 Savage, as well as the previously released single 'Feels Like Summer'.

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There's also a more sinister studio version of 'Algorhythm' - a song Gambino performed at Splendour In The Grass last year - as well as 'Warlords', which he performed at Coachella.

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The new project comes fresh off of Glover scoring three Childish Gambino tracks into the Hottest 100 of the Decade. (‘This Is America’ at #90, back-to-back at #36 and #35 with ‘Redbone’ and ‘3005’ respectively).

Musically, it's another expansion of the rapper-actor's stylistic scope. He digs into futuristic RnB and pop, there's touches of gospel, and other times he sounds a lot like Prince. On first listen, there's some of the experimental tone of 2016's Awaken, My Love! but it doesn't go as hard on the psychedelic funk voodoo energy and instead leans a bit more towards the synthetic in its arrangements.



No word on an official title, but it appears the decade-defining musician seems to have ditched the Childish Gambino name. In fact, if you head to the livestream and click under the art, a text field appears to let you put something in. Maybe Glover's looking for album title suggestions?

Here's an uncomfirmed tracklist that fans on the r/donaldglover subreddit have pulled together.

Warlords

"Little foot big foot get out the way!"

"Why Go To The Party?"

Feels Like Summer

"The Violence"

"Under the Sun"

"We Are We Are We Are"

Algorythm

Time (feat. Ariana Grande)

"Vibrate" (feat. 21 Savage & ???)

"Beautiful"

"Sweet Thang" / "Thank You"

The internet reacts

Fans obviously freaked out when they found out that Donald Glover had released his first new body of work in four-ish years. The surprise drop resulted in some juicy social media reactions, here's some of the best we found.

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