I feel like every P4K review of a Gambino project is more of a review of him as a person than it is the actual music.
This is true for the majority of P4K reviews for the past 15 years at least
Bruh how has no one posted the video itt yet
!https://youtu.be/yD9Xo0V-hPw?si=UDmOa2_lXXSXBP2XLMFAOOO that ending wtf
Your account should be deleted if you don’t like Cruisin’
Yeat-less version hits >>>
Yeat-less version hits >>>
C'mon, Yeat def does not detract from the song that much lmao
No reason to go through that trouble
Listened to this album high last night and it clicked a lot more
Can't say I dislike any songs in particular, it's just very incoherent as a body of work and all over the place. Skits serve as a distraction more than anything and it's early but i'm really not picking up a narrative at all
It’s not resonating with me as a total body of work the same way BTI, AML, and the original untitled record did when I first heard them. There’s definitely some highs on here but I’m not really feeling the album as a whole, particularly some of the heavily electronic rap records. They feel a bit distracting next to records like steps beach which I wish the album leaned a bit more towards sonically but all in all not a bad record just not one of my favorites in his discog but maybe it’ll grow on me at some
Point
Sucks for him and his label I guess
Me tho
Not sure Donald even cares about charts at this point of his career tbh.
3.15.20, Atavista, and Bando Stone all feel like projects that are just for his core fans.
He hasn’t dropped any mainstream sounding music since 2018
P4K slightly updated the score from 5.4 to 5.8...so petty lol
I thought it was always a 5.8
Did Atavista even chart?
I thought it was always a 5.8
Nah initially it was a 5.4 P4K been doing this for a minute where they will retroactively slightly change a score before it officially gets sent out to review aggregate sites. Why they bother doing it I don't really know, especially when they change nothing about the written review. But I'm just gonna assume it's some metrics stuff that I can't be bothered to read up on
Rather than trying to reclaim the chart positions of “Redbone” and “This Is America,” Glover defined success for his new album in more personal terms.
“Success to me is, honestly, being able to put out a wide-scale album that I would listen to,” he said. “For this album, I really wanted to be able to play big rooms and have big, anthemic songs that fill those rooms, so that people feel a sense of togetherness.”
“Bando” plays like a curated archive of the Childish Gambino experience — stylistically promiscuous, aesthetically astute, lyrically provocative — with an added dose of grown-up equanimity. Its first single, “Lithonia,” channels Rivers Cuomo in the ’90s for a barroom singalong tuned for the end times; the opener “Hearts Are Meant to Fly” is an electro-punk battle cry pitched between Kanye West’s “Yeezus” and the Prodigy; and the shape-shifting soul/funk standout “No Excuse” skillfully marries Marvin Gaye and Fela Kuti.
Fam Udeorji, Glover’s longtime co-manager, said their ambition was to create a body of work that will live with fans for the long term, citing SZA’s “SOS” as an example. “If people listen to this album and it becomes a part of their identity, if they look back a year later and are reminded of how much they listened to it and what that felt like in the summer of ’24 — that kind of real estate is way more valuable to me” than chart metrics, he said.
Glover said that some who were around for the making of the album questioned its more tender or earnest moments. But he ultimately overruled them. At 40, there is no one left for him to be but himself.

i mean it’s no way he thought this was gonna do numbers so it’s respectable imo
Not sure Donald even cares about charts at this point of his career tbh.
3.15.20, Atavista, and Bando Stone all feel like projects that are just for his core fans.
He hasn’t dropped any mainstream sounding music since 2018
Its actually wild how successful commercially he was from 2013-2018 bc he has never been traditional with the way he promotes his music