It is with some sadness for his fans from all walks of life that Donald Glover declared that "Bando Stone and the New World" was Childish Gambino's last album. The soundtrack to the feature film of the same name, this hour-long project includes snippets of dialogue that hint at the apocalyptic subject matter of the film. The fact that the soundtrack precedes the film itself is part of Glover's strategy: he wants listeners to strive to understand what they're hearing. "The soundtrack forces the audience to participate in a way that I don't feel like most things force you to participate," he says. "It forces you to have an imagination. I already see people saying, 'This is very cinematic, this must be the part that... It sounds like an end credit sequence.' A lot of things feel flat because they don't ask you to participate. In the old days, in art, you had to participate on some level and have some kind of thought process." You can't just say, "Oh, we're halfway there!" Even without the full visuals, these 17 tracks form a satisfying swan song, synthesizing what came before with fresher ideas, gleaned at the threshold of finality.
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