Donald Glover, on a Singular Trajectory, Has Awoken

For anyone who hasn’t been paying attention, a first listen through the new album from Donald Glover—recorded under his musical pseudonym Childish Gambino—must’ve been a bit jarring. The record, titled Awaken, My Love! is wildly divergent from anything that the ambitious 33-year old has ever released before, first and foremost, containing not a single bar of rapping, previously the hallmark of music recorded under the Gambino moniker.Instead, it takes a hard left turn, co