The song “Atavista” sees Glover return to peak R&B form. Soulful and impeccably groovy in the vein of earlier hits like “Redbone,” and touched with added flair from some trendy retro-futuristic synthesizer pulsations, it feels something like a mission statement for the album at large. "Atavism," per Merriam-Webster, means among other things the "recurrence of or reversion to a past style, manner, outlook, approach, or activity." On an album that itself fits that definition to a tee, "Atavista"
