Bando Stone & the New World

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Bando Stone & the New World
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Studio album / soundtrack album by
Childish Gambino
ReleasedJuly 19, 2024 (2024-07-19)
Label RCA
Childish Gambino chronology
Atavista
(2024)		Bando Stone & the New World
(2024)
Singles from Bando Stone & the New World
  1. "Lithonia"
    Released: July 2, 2024
  2. "In The Night"
    Released: July 16, 2024

Bando Stone & the New World is the upcoming fifth studio album by American rapper Donald Glover, under his stage name Childish Gambino, and the soundtrack album from his upcoming film of the same name. Scheduled to be released on July 19, 2024, through RCA Records, it is Glover's final album under the Childish Gambino moniker. [1]

Contents

Background

In 2017, Donald Glover revealed he planned to retire the stage name Childish Gambino after his next project, telling the Governors Ball Music Festival attendees, "I'll see you for the last Gambino album." [2] In 2018, Glover won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for his 2016 single "Redbone." At the Q&A following the ceremony, Glover reiterated his intention to retire the Gambino moniker and release a final project, saying "I think endings are good because they force things to get better". [3] Glover told attendees of the This is America Tour that the tour would be Childish Gambino's final tour. [4] In 2020, Glover unceremoniously released the studio album 3.15.20 in an unfinished state amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the loss of his father. It was unknown at the time if the release would be Glover's final Childish Gambino project. [5] [6]

In 2023, Glover confirmed that Childish Gambino had not been retired yet, revealing that he was in the process of making new music. [7] During a livestream in May 2024 from Glover's production company Gilga, Glover announced that he would be releasing two albums in the same year. The first would be a finished version of 3.15.20, now titled Atavista; the second would be an all-new album titled Bando Stone & the New World, the soundtrack to a tentpole film from Gilga of the same name. Glover confirmed the latter release would act as the final album under the moniker of Childish Gambino. [8] [9]

Atavista officially released on May 13, 2024, with Glover confirming the release for the all-new Childish Gambino in the summer of the same year. [10] A world tour, called "The New World Tour", was announced by Glover the same week. [11]

Promotion & release

The film, touted as an IMAX exclusive event, had its first trailer premiere in IMAX with showings of A Quiet Place: Day One, releasing on YouTube on July 1, 2024. [12] The project features Glover taking on the role of Bando Stone, a singer stumbling into a post-apocalyptic world before teaming up with a woman and her son to fight prehistoric creatures and try to escape from an unexplained phenomena that seems to delete "chunks" of the world. [13] [14]

The album's lead single, "Lithonia", was released on July 2, 2024, with the album being dated for release on July 19. [15] It is a guitar-driven rock song named after the city of Lithonia in Georgia. [16] Abby Jones of Stereogum described the song as "dramatic" and "rock-heavy". [17]

The same week Glover held a listening party event in Little Island, New York where he played and performed songs from the album ahead of release. Glover confirmed features with Steve Lacy, Flo Milli, Fousheé, Jorja Smith, Yeat, Amaarae and Glover's son. [18] [19]

The album's second single, "In the Night" featuring Jorja Smith and Amaarae, was releaed on July 16, 2024. [20]

Track listing

Bando Stone and the New World track listing
No.TitleLength
1.Untitled3:07
2."Lithonia"2:58
3.Untitled4:07
4.Untitled3:48
5.Untitled3:45
6.Untitled2:56
7.Untitled2:17
8."In the Night" (featuring Jorja Smith and Amaarae)3:49
9.Untitled3:22
10.Untitled2:58
11.Untitled7:23
12.Untitled3:58
13.Untitled4:23
14.Untitled2:34
15.Untitled2:40
16.Untitled3:23
17.Untitled2:43
Total length:60:11

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