Single Track Mind
Awaken, My Love! album cover

Riot

Childish Gambino

Hot take alert - I didn’t particularly care for this album, which seems sacrilege as so many people love it and it hit the top of a bunch of critics list that year it came out.

However I do very much enjoy riot. I think it’s the best track on the album despite its short run time, and sounding like something that Parliament would have come out with 40 years prior.

I especially like the slowed down version in the background of his Coachella monologue where he gives everyone on the polo fields an existential crisis.

One song per day. Two hundred words or less.