"Awaken, My Love!" by Childish Gambino on Album Whale

How long will this album stay as my #1? Man. It just has so much to love about it.

To start, the way the album introduces itself and closes is absolutely impeccable. Makes the whole thing feel complete as fuck. Like when you finish it you feel like you just watched an emotional 3h movie that had your attention captive the whole time.

Then all throughout you have these amazing vocals and some of the cleanest dirtiest grooviest production you can find. Boogieman was a fucking hard left turn which somehow fits the rest of the album so well.

And then finding out the comparisons with Maggot Brain was so trippy. I don't know if it detracts from this or makes it more endearing. To this day it feels like mixed emotions. Maybe finding that out made it worse for me. But I do remember how excited I was when I started making connections and how much I wanted to share it with people.