Thundercat - It Is What It Is (Album Review) - Stereoboard
After his monumental 2017 effort ‘Drunk’ blasted Thundercat’s space-age, bass-led jazz fusion into the ears of hordes of new listeners, ‘It Is What It Is’ arrives as his most highly anticipated release to date. In that regard, ‘It Is What It Is’ seems, at first, to be a disappointingly defeatist title for Stephen Bruner’s new work, suggesting that the added pressure of newfound mainstream popularity has pushed the six string bass virtuoso to rushing out sub-par material to meet a spike in demand
