Donald Glover's fourth LP is a confusing mess right from the start. It comes out on its website on 3/15, it should be "Donald Glover Presents...", then it's withdrawn after one day and released in streaming the following week, untitled.
It doesn't have a cover, it has no track titles, it has no mixing. The content of this product, twelve tracks for nearly an hour, is a collage of unexplored experimental extracts, held together by a gray mash of crackers and expired paint. From the very first song, it reveals itself as a lazy, uninspired, boring and exhausting record: Glover very badly copies some of the worst elements of mainstream rappers and blends them together in a forced and haphazard way, creating a completely annoying and inaccessible production and acting out bars with poor style.
The guests add nothing, even the usually melodic voice of Ariana Grande here manages to annoy, and tracks that don't bother musically are boring. There's a decent dance choice ("19.10"), and a discreet hardcore piece at the end ("53.49"), the rest is completely forgettable: "42.26", released in 2018 as "Feels Like Summer", is the only accessible song on the whole record, possibly the best one of this edition, and it's still not really good, not like the material from his previous album. At the expense of the critical acclaim received — four perfect scores — and the lukewarm reception of the public, this is a soporific and deeply disappointing pop effort, one of the worst albums of the year. 2.5/10.
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