![]() Thundercat brings the same eclectic style that defines his music to the clothes he wears. Lyrics like "I wish I was a cat.I would scare off everything" and a highly relatable song about being hungover and losing your wallet provide the laughs while, get ready, Michael McDonald- Michael Motherfucking McDonald-lends his signature melodic voice to one of the album's best songs. Thundercat, whose friends include off-kilter comedians like Eric Andre, Hannibal Buress, and new-wave jazz star Robert Glasper, found a way to meld absurdist humor with beautiful musical arrangements. Drunk is a fantastic album musically, but it also has the added value of being arrestingly funny. ![]() While Thundercat's music hasn't quite reached Zeitgeist status, rap nerds may already know him from Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly (to which he lent some of his unmistakable funky-ness), or from his own growing catalog-this month he released his third solo album, Drunk. ![]() It takes a special kind of guy to play the six-string bass-and some serious skills to write good songs around it-and Thundercat, a 32-year-old bassist from Los Angeles, might just be the best in the business.
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