Thundercat
It Is What It Is
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Thundercat

It Is What It Is
Sealed 2021 Deluxe Edition Pressing On 140gm Clear Vinyl. Housed In A 6mm Spine Gatefold Sleeve, With Gold-Foil Stamped Writing And Detail. Comes With Obi Style Strip. Custom Gold 2021 Grammy Winner Sticker On Front Shrink. Co-Produced With Flying Lotus. ""It's Been A While, But I'm Down 'til I'm Out And It Is What It Is 'til It Ain't." So Preached Mac Miller On 2018's Swimming. A Month After The Album Was Released, The Beloved Miller Died From An Accidental Overdose, Compelling Thundercat, Bassist And Co-writer On The Quoted Track, To Cope Again With Loss And Mortality As He Made The Follow-up To Drunk. Those Themes Coursed Through Much Of Thundercat's 2010s Work -- Most Perceptibly On Apocalypse, Recorded After The Death Of Another Close Friend And Collaborator, Austin Peralta -- And Continue On His First Lp Of The 2020s, Co-produced By Trusty Partner Flying Lotus. Thundercat Is Most Open On "Fair Chance," Flanked By Fellow Miller Comrades Ty Dolla $ign And Lil B, Grieving In Downcast Falsetto, "So Hard To Get Over It, I've Tried To Get Under It/stuck In Between, It Is What It Is." The Album's Title Is Repeated Across The Variegated Yet Flowing Sequence, Utilized As Either A Mantra Or Verbal Spackle, Always In Tribute. Just As Moving Is Thundercat's Heart-in-throat Salutation In The Closing Title Track, Briefly Stated Just Before His Bass Intertwines With Pedro Martins' Guitar To Gorgeous Effect. As On The Earlier Thundercat Lps, Outer Space And Homeboy Escapades, Comic Courtship And Elusive Companionship, And Philosophical Insights Also Inform The Material. In The Churning "Innerstellar Love," Featuring Kamasi Washington's Blazing Saxophone, Thundercat Croons "Nothing Is Yours, Nothing Is Mine/we All Decay Over Time" Like A Tragic-romantic Roy Ayers. The Surreal Psych-funk Badbadnotgood Meeting "King Of The Hill," Originally A Brainfeeder X Highlight, Falls Snugly Into Place And Functions As A Cautionary Flip Side To The Bobbing "Black Qualls," A Conscientious Ballers' Anthem Graced By Dayton Funk Demigod Steve Arrington. There Are No Throwaways Or Novelty Tunes. The Tender-rocking "Dragonball Durag" Is Full Of Humor But Too Thoughtfully Written And Endearing To Be Disregarded As Either. "How Sway" Is A Warp-speed Instrumental Comprehended Only By Those Who Were Raised On Fusion Records And Japanese Video Games, Yet It's An Ideal Setup For The Whomping Revelry Tale "Funny Thing." Cartoonishly Puttering And Seemingly Off-the-dome, "Miguel's Happy Dance" Provides Heartfelt Solace: "Dancin' Away The Pain, It's Gonna Be All Right." That Might Be The Paramount Message Here." It Is What It Is Review by Andy Kellman.

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  • Artist: Thundercat
  • Genre: Hip Hop
  • Type: Colored Vinyl - New
  • Label: Brainfeeder
  • Catalog ID: BF100X
  • Condition:
    Vinyl:
    Mint (M)
  • Country ID: USA
  • SKU: 163927

Track List

A1 Lost In Space / Great Scott / 22-26
A2 Innerstellar Love
A3 I Love Louis Cole
A4 Black Qualls
A5 Miguel's Happy Dance
A6 How Sway
A7 Funny Thing
B1 Overseas
B2 Dragonball Durag
B3 How I Feel
B4 King Of The Hill
B5 Unrequited Love
B6 Fair Chance
B7 Existential Dread
B8 It Is What It Is

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