Tag: Thundercat
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Thundercat – Apocalypse | Album Review
Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, has become the go-to bassist for artists seeking a virtuosic but tasteful low-ender. Notably on Flying Lotus’ 2010 LP, Cosmogramma, his fidgety six-string runs meshed perfectly with FlyLo’s electronica, heralding a surprisingly coherent musical partnership that would blossom with Thundercat’s first solo offering, The Golden Age of Apocalypse. Whilst on paper…
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Flying Lotus – Until The Quiet Comes | Album Review
Flying Lotus’ new LP Until The Quiet Comes is about to hit play the world over. Shaped as a 46 minutes opus of jazz-fusion, this fourth album is so daring and so complete it can only be qualified as a masterpiece.
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Thundercat – The Golden Age of Apocalypse | Album Review
In the ’80s kids were fascinated by the cartoon ThunderCats, produced by Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass, which was based around the group of cat-like humanoid aliens. Of those fascinated kids stood bassist/vocalist Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner, who uses the cartoon series as a namesake. Thundercat made a following for himself as the bassist for…
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Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma | Album Review
Flying Lotus raised the height of his electro-sonic game when he released in May this year his second full-length album Cosmogramma on Warp records, an unusual album through-in and through-out its content, style and visual form (with artwork by Leigh J. McCloseky, look up Codex Tor!). Cosmogramma is constructed by 17 pieces, from 17 seconds…