It Is What It Is | CD experimental pop

It Is What It Is | CD experimental popThudercat It Is What It Is (CD) Thundercat returns with a 4th full length album as a stunning masterpiece featuring musical contributions from his friends Flying Lotus, Ty Dolla $ign, Childish Gambino, Lil B, Kamasi Washington, Steve Lacy, Steve Arrington, BadBadNotGood, Louis Cole and Zack Fox. It Is What It Is is the follow up to his game changing third album Drunk (2017). That record completed his transition from virtuoso bassist to bonafide star

Post-production work took place at Jason Buckle’s Place du Big Boss studio in Raynes Park

where the legendary Norwegian eight-piece takes a deep dive into post-rock

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But all along

and soon spread across Colombia

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Guitarist Greg Ahee - inspired by The Raincoats' Odyshape

Kamasi Washington

A Morte Do Violão

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Finding himself confined over lockdown to a small stretch of the Old Kent Road in London—an area between his studio and his house that he would traverse each day—Felix discovered this was the same neighbourhood in which his Nan had worked in a sweet shop many years before

Put in the context of a conservative Brazil on the eve of Brasília’s inauguration