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• It is with a certain sadness for his fans across mediums that Donald Glover has declared Bando Stone and The New World the last Childish Gambino album. The ostensible soundtrack to a feature-length movie of the same name, the hour-long project includes snippets of dialogue that hint at the films apocalyptic subject matter. The fact that the soundtrack is preceding the actual film is part of Glovers strategy: He wants listeners to work to figure out what theyre listening to. 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 being like, ‘This is very cinematic, this must be the part that… This feels like a credit sequence.’ A lot of stuff feels flat becaus