Childish Gambino has confirmed that his 3rd full length album, “Awaken, My Love!” (Liberator Music / Glassnote Records) is set for release on Dec. 2, 2016. Today, his social media accounts revealed the album’s cover, track listing and a link to the album’s pre-order. First track, ‘Me and Your Mama’ was debuted today by Zane Lowe as a Beats 1 World Record. Zane played the song 6 times in a row, a record for the program, with additional plays throughout the show. The track is available here.

As Childish Gambino once again sheds his skin, “Awaken My Love!” is a sonic evolution. It has been described as “R&B meets Pink Floyd,” by one journalist while others have cited an amalgam of rock, funk, and soul influences. It is a groundbreaking next step following the genre blending STN MTN / Kauai mixtape and the twice-Grammy nominated rap album, because the internet.

Breaking the mold and creating fully-formed, alternate worlds is a trademark of this creator, who presented “Awaken, My Love!” first at his PHAROS festival in Joshua Tree, CA last September. To attend, fans utilized the scalper-proof PHAROS app which served as a “compass” that guided guests and communicated the ethos of both the event and the new music as “a gathering of the 5 intuitives of the human experience: tribe, ritual, experience abstraction, architecture, language.”