Album Review: Thundercat Declares It Is What It Is
Thundercat is a one-man Earth, Wind, and Fire. It Is What It Is is a cosmic, funkadelic journey into life, love, dreams, and whatever flows between all three. If Carl Sagan is right and we are all stardust, then Thundercat is a GALAXY. He is leveling up!
If Thundercat came out and said the production of this record was made by him flying through planets with a red cape, observing the daily routines of unfound life-forms, and proceeding to record the album on a cloud over Machu Picchu, I’d say, “Yeah. I can see it.” The album feels lush as if he squeezed his brain like fruit to put into every arrangement a citrus twist. The record is cinematic in scope with songs like, “Existential Dread,” “Interstellar,” and “Miguel’s Happy Dance” feeling like scenes from Adventure Time, except Finn is now adulating and trying to rock a “Dragonball Durag” and go “Overseas.”
Thundercat – ‘Dragonball Durag’ (Official Video)
One thing that Thundercat fans ADMIRE about this unique artist is his bold, experimental nature. He never fits into a mold: in genre, style, and even in the stories he builds though his songs. He portrays human interactions like they are colorful abstracts: silly, vibrant, serious, and unable to shape normally. Thus, his fans will be ENAMORED with It Is What It Is, and how he embraces the vastness of his mind and sounds: going from jazzy to psychedelic. Yet, for a man rising in notice, perhaps, the importance of It Is What It Is lands in that it WILL get him even more fans.
Thundercat – ‘Fair Chance (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Lil B)’ (Official Audio)
It Is What It Is feels perfectly made because it grasps Thundercat’s talent and eccentricity to provide listeners a narrative. From “How Say” to “Unrequited Love,” the record is a journey with roads, pit-stops, and overall rides/ songs through both. With his falsetto shining, Thundercat truly is made of stardust. To Buy It Is What It Is On April 3 Click Here.
