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The WireAug 6, 2024He still lacks emotional commitment as a rapper, offering weakly swaggy bars like “I’m gonna make a billie like I’m Eilish” on “Talk My Shit”. Honeyed melodic shadings like “Dadvocate” and the emo rock oriented “Lithonia” are more compelling. [Sep 2024, p.60]
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Jul 29, 2024Glover fares better on his own terms, as on the sultry funk of In the Night, the R&B balladry of Steps Beach and the Latin jazz jam of No Excuses, but these tracks feel lost amid his genre-hopping. On his final album, Glover throws everything at the wall but little sticks.
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Jul 24, 2024Glover is clearly better than he's ever been in almost every regard; his rapping, singing and everything in between feel refined to a point they never have. The issue is that, without the movie, there's no connective tissue between these songs, as great as the majority are. For now, Bando Stone & the New World exists as a collection of songs that are mostly great, but lack any real sense of cohesion between them.
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Jul 22, 2024When it works, he can still cook up something masterful. .... However, some of Gambino’s ideas would have been better served if he just hired Weezer or Pusha T to deliver them. .... Even if the exploratory Bando Stone doesn’t get Glover another Grammy and Number One for the road, you can tell he’s walking away happy, fulfilled and no longer childish.
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Jul 23, 2024It’s hard to grasp who Childish Gambino is supposed to be. So even when he’s genuine, I have a little bit of skepticism on my mind.