Childish Gambino - Culdesac (2010)

When I was younger and lived in a pretty isolated area, I used to want to live in a culdesac until I realized that it meant that I'd have to occasionally talk to people. That shit sounds like it sucks.

I actually totally forgot I had even written this review.. Because I didn't! All I did was take notes. I'm a sleep-deprived son of a bitch and I don't really like this album, so here are the notes I took while listening to this one morning:

NOTES:

"I Be On That" has a great, bassy beat but a lackluster rap performance on it. "Got Your Money" has a bit of a french house feeling to it with the first real appearance of Childish Gambino's singing ability, and while he has a nice tone to his voice, he didn't really figure out how to work it just yet. "So Fly" should've been named "So Fucking Uninteresting, Change the Song, We're Never Handing You the AUX Again" instead. "You Know Me" has the beat for "Look Out For Detox" by Kendrick Lamar or wherever the fuck the original beat came from. "Let Me Dope You" has an irritating electric guitar sample, constantly hitting high notes and generally being abrasive as fuck and not in a good way, but not even to the point where it's overbearing in the mix, it's just in the background but you can tell that the song would've been improved otherwise. Past that, who the fuck names a song "Let Me Dope You"? David Parker Ray? Oh, that's a fucking awful, terrible joke. Forget I said that: Or even typed it! I came up with that thought and it traveled to my fingers, it didn't just fling out of my mouth with reckless abandon like Childish Gambino's shitty puns, but I still feel like we're both at fault.

"Do Ya Like" has an Adele sample.. FROM BEFORE SHE BLEW UP!! From just MONTHS before "Rolling in the Deep" dropped as a single! That's pretty impressive, in a way, because it makes it even more apparent that Gambino is HIPSTER SCUM and keep in mind: If you fuck up the words "HIPSTER SCUM" then it becomes "HIPSTERS CUM" and ends up being a weird video on PornHub where some depressed looking dudes in flannel bukkake the fuck out of a girl that previously had much stronger and meaningful ambitions. "I'm Alright", "Fuck It All" and "The Last" have a very depressive tone to the lyrics but don't translate that well to music. Hell, most of the lyrics on this album don't translate that well to music in general. This album has the occasional "aah!" moment when you recognize a sample or a risk being taken, but if you take a moment to be honest with yourself, it kinda fuckin' sucks.

Okay, I guess that's still a review, but fuck you.

5/10 ________________________________________________________
Feel free to download this FREE album from Forever Childish!