Thundercat
Virtuoso bass lines that ripple like liquid mercury under airy falsetto. A playful, psychedelic blend of jazz-fusion and neo-soul for late-night cosmic wandering.
Virtuoso bass lines that ripple like liquid mercury under airy falsetto. A playful, psychedelic blend of jazz-fusion and neo-soul for late-night cosmic wandering.
Los Angeles-based musician Stephen Lee Bruner, known as Thundercat, is a versatile bassist, singer, and producer signed to Brainfeeder. After starting in the band Suicidal Tendencies, he shifted toward a signature blend of electronic, neo-soul, funk, and jazz-fusion. A frequent collaborator with Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar, he has earned Grammy Awards for his contributions to contemporary rap and his acclaimed 2020 solo album, It Is What It Is.
Airy multitracked falsettos float above you to make your shoulders feel completely weightless
A rubbery, hyper-speed bassline bounces beneath a falsetto so light it feels like warm breath on a cold window. You are listening to someone laugh through tears, wrapping heavy grief in bright, neon-colored funk. The drums snap with playful precision, but a quiet, bruised ache hangs in the spaces between the chords. It feels like driving through a city at midnight, windows down, trying to outrun a memory that is sitting right in the passenger seat.
Late-night anxiety wrapped in velvet funk
Six-string basslines bubble like seltzer water through a haze of cheap weed and late-night television, locking down the exact point where virtuoso jazz fusion becomes bedroom comedy. After years of playing the brilliant sideman, this is the moment those hyper-speed fingers finally found their perfect, wobbling orbit. The music feels like wandering into a convenience store at three in the morning, your head spinning with beautiful, anxious falsettos while yacht-rock legends hum in the freezer aisle. It is a warm, deeply eccentric masterpiece of soft-focus funk that turns everyday dread into something you can comfortably drift away on.
Thick, bubbling basslines collide with the cold shock of grief on a record that pulled cosmic jazz-fusion down into the raw dirt of human loss. After years of playing in the background, these ten tracks mark the moment the virtuoso stepped into the spotlight as a grieving vocalist, wrapping his falsetto around neon-lit synthesizers and hyper-kinetic funk grooves. You can feel the sweat on the fretboard and the sting of recent tragedy in the breezy, bittersweet melodies. It is a frantic, beautiful attempt to outrun sorrow through sheer speed, transforming private mourning into a glowing, kaleidoscopic dancefloor.
Watery six-string basslines slip around your ankles like warm currents, pulling your posture into a loose, undulating sway that makes the sidewalk feel entirely weightless.
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