Donald Glover Announces First Childish Gambino World Tour Since 2019

Donald Glover is heading out on a world tour in help of his reworked model of his 2020 Infantile Gambino album 3.15.20, now titled Atavista.

The in depth tour, which kicks off in August, contains stops in North America, Europe, the U.Okay., Australia and New Zealand. The reside reveals, at present dubbed The New World Tour, mark the primary time that Glover has gone on the street since his 2018-2019 This Is America Tour. Tickets might be out there through an American Specific and artist presale Wednesday and go on sale to most people Friday.

The world tour announcement coincides with the shock launch of Atavista on Monday, after beforehand teasing that the up to date album was coming. Glover introduced Atavista‘s launch on social media at midnight, writing, “ATAVISTA is streaming now. This album is the completed model of ‘3.15.20’, the album i put out 4 years in the past.”

Along with asserting the LP, Glover wrote that there’s a “particular vinyl” coming quickly with “visuals for every track.”

The rapper additionally shared a video for “Little Foot, Large Foot,” his collaborative monitor with Younger Nudy for the album.

Within the video, Quinta Brunson performs a jazz membership proprietor who advises Glover’s fictional doo-wop trio Johnny and the Pipes to not make eye contact with the entrance row, “as they’ll take it as a problem.” The Twenties-inspired clip turns to current day for Younger Nudy’s half, because the rapper sits beside a miniature set of the jazz membership underneath a starry sky.

Greater than a month earlier than Atavista‘s launch, Glover shared the tracklist for the album on an Instagram Story, introducing the names of the beforehand untitled songs. The document contains collaborations with Ariana Grande, 21 Savage and Summer season Walker, amongst others.

Throughout an Instagram Gilga Radio livestream again in April, Glover shared that the rerelease of 3.15.20 as Atavista (which was the title he initially wished for the 2020 document) can be one in all two closing albums underneath the moniker of Infantile Gambino.

As for why he wasn’t proud of how the unique album got here out, Glover defined on the time that he and his crew “put it out form of rapidly” with out mixing and mastering it throughout a time when he was “going by way of quite a bit.” It got here out with out a lot fanfare in the course of the starting of the COVID-19 pandemic, not receiving the right rollout that Glover supposed.

The opposite album underway is Bando Stone & the New World, which can function the soundtrack for Glover’s movie of the identical identify. Although he hasn’t given an official date for the ultimate LP, he talked about in the course of the livestream and the Atavista launch announcement that Bando Stone & the New World is slated to reach this summer time.