THUNDERCAT
Stream New Track “Lotus & The Jondy”
Featured In Trailer for New Web Series “Off Main St”
New Album Apocalypse Out Now On Brainfeeder Records
The analogue explorations of “Lotus & The Jondy,” the latest track from Thundercat’s new album Apocalypse, can be streamed now via Brainfeeder’s Soundcloud page. Thundercat is also featured in the trailer for the debut episode of the new music show “Off Main St.” The groundbreaking long-format show, produced by Dilly Gent (Nigel Godrich’s “From The Basement”), sees Thundercat taking the stage at an epic live show at the Echoplex in Los Angeles, and visiting some of his favorite hometown spots including Amoeba Records, Meltdown Comics and hatmaker Gunnar Fox. Look for the full episode to premiere later this month.
Forever a wildcat and wild card, Los Angeles’ Thundercat is impossible to tame artistically. His 2011 solo debut The Golden Age of Apocalypse, co-produced by Flying Lotus, created a genre-blurring enigma of indie rock and jazz, with a touch of electronica. OnApocalypse—out now digitally on Brainfeeder Records and via CD/LP on July 9—Thundercat brings a fusion of pop, soul, electronica, prog rock and funk into an unexplored dimension. He again pairs up with executive producer Flying Lotus to pull the veil back and reveal the simple truths of the cycle of life, for all its beauty and destruction. It’s an album about loss and rebuilding, trying to gain something back, and capturing that moment of clarity where one finally finds feet back on the ground again.
Apocalypse Press Quotes
“with Apocalypse, Thundercat has made an emotionally complex record, while still finding time to party.” – NPR Music, First Listen
“’Oh Sheit It’s X’... is an early candidate for 2013’s greatest summer jam.” – Rolling Stone
“Los Angeles ‘Bass god’ Thundercat just dropped the best album of the year. A shimmering collection of celestial funk, Apocalypse features production from beat savant Flying Lotus and oscillates between good-natured jazz-pop and plaintive soul.” – Complex
“a groundbreaking solo artist... who weaves soulful melodies and funky beats around his virtuosic bass playing.” Interview Magazine
“Thundercat's Apocalypse... takes its name from the end of days but sounds more like a new start. Miles Davis might have put it more simply: That motherf*cker can play.” – LA Weekly
“everything on Apocalypse is about taking stock, figuring yourself out, and making sure that the people that mean something to you know that they do. That it arrives through the conduit of somebody who has an elaborate means to express this, but knows when and how to keep things simple? That's how you translate virtuosity into something that hits you right in the heart.” – Pitchfork, 8.2 review
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