Thundercat

bass player / vocalist

https://open.spotify.com/track/3bxjtvcAllN0FnsarixsdO

Love this guy...so smooth...so Stevie wonder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62EmHhZSjEI

This is O.K. On paper it sounds like the best, weirdest Yacht Rock thing imaginable but I think I like most previous Thundercat releases better.

I'm looking forward to a full album in the mode of his last EP. I enjoyed his previous stuff, but The Beyond/Where The Giants Roam felt like he'd turned the corner from a virtuosic player and a fun artist into an indispensable artist.

This is O.K. On paper it sounds like the best, weirdest Yacht Rock thing imaginable but I think I like most previous Thundercat releases better.

It's a weak song. In their heyday, neither Loggins nor McDonald would have let something this hookless slip out as a B-side.

is this the most annoying album ever

About to find out. Just started listening.

Yeah, this is crap. Gave up halfway through, put on Michael Henderson's Wide Receiver instead. (If you've never heard that, it's a 1980 smooth funk/bedroom R&B album by the dude who played bass for Miles Davis from 1972-75.)

I like this one:
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sglnykRRln9VDmZXRJ3zY

Is it just me or are the lyrics on this thing offensively bad?

I'm not even a guy who listens to lyrics the first time through an album but there are some severe clunkers on most of the tracks.

It's a dork-funk record if I've ever heard one. Funny the first time 'round, but I probably won't come back to this one often. I could see 14 year old me loving this

The hit to miss ratio is pretty bad here. I made a nice 4 track EP after removing the chaff

This is in serious need of an edit. If you cut down the best ideas you could end with an okay 8track lp. As it stands it's way too homogenic and meandering to make it thru the whole thing.

That said there are at least two great songs in here

"It's a dork-funk record if I've ever heard one."

^^^ THIS ^^^

hmmm, dunno, but I quite like this guy's meandering bass style. A lot of it reminds me of Insignificance-ear Jim O'Rourke.

I think it's great, though there's nothing on the new album as wonderful as Tron Song

New one took a few spins to really click, but I'm totally digging it now. "Dragonball Durag" is great!

Ok what the fuck, this guy was in SUICIDAL TENDENCIES for 9 YEARS and no one ever talks about it

I wrote a Wire cover story on him a couple of months ago and believe you me, we talked about that.

awesome I will track that down. it seems weird it doesn't come up more for how much press he gets

I swear I've heard him talk about it on a podcast, but I can't remember which. It could have been Hannibal Buress' pod, although that usually wasn't very interview-y?

I feel like every time I talk about him someone is like "did you KNOW he was in Suicidal Tendencies?"

been listening to him for 5 years now and i just heard about it this week, but then again i dont read about music much these days

i like thundercat

I love him. It Is What It Is was great, but Drunk's a true masterpiece.

i love him, but on first listen, thought drunk was tamer than the earlier stuff. but thats just a first impression. nice that hes got a wider audience. saw him play live once, supporting flying lotus, and he was a 100 times better than fly lo, mainly as he brought a band and played the shit out of his bass, while fly lo seemed to just be miming along to his ableton set up with some okay-ish projections.

Drunk is amazing

that is what my friend shared with me and tbh i still can't believe how good it is.

i never gave flying lotus a chance, maybe i should. i also like kaytranada, if that's even relevant like at all.

thundercat is on a lot of fly lo's stuff. fly lo is often 'brilliant' but thundercat is more pleasurable to listen to.

I loved the last thundercat album but haven’t heard anything else. ecstatic fusion-tactic

The drummer he had on the Drunk tour was astonishing, like properly jaw-droppingly brilliant. Wish they'd cut a live album - their version of Tron Song was genuinely further evolved than the studio take.

i never gave flying lotus a chance, maybe i should. i also like kaytranada, if that's even relevant like at all.

― John Cooper of Christian rock band Skillet (map)

FlyLo is literally at the intersection between Kaytranada and Thundercat, musically

found a used copy of Drunk which I figured I had to pick up just because the format is so neat. yes it's annoying to have to change sides every 6 minutes but I kind of appreciate the dedication to making something so obnoxiously unique. anyway the music is very good but I think I prefer whiny and sometimes gross lyrics about women than I do lyrics about Goku

perilously close to the "how i break it down to an extent" quote

Didn't see this coming, but good for him, I guess? At least the commercial retains some of the goofiness of his videos.

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Thrill 🤩
Taste 😋
Fun 😜#JustBecause 💫 pic.twitter.com/Yj50Ys8tWy

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it's not selling out, it's buying in