★★★★★
With "Daylight" one could effortlessly misinterpret Thundercat's (Stephen Bruner) music as the same kind of electronic music that artists like Hudson Mohawke and Rustie are fashioning: a sort of wonky, sort of grimy but mostly, electronically-refreshing take on beats and synths. Naturally so, it was the lead song off his debut, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, however; as a multi-genre bassist, Bruner's music reaches much farther and much, much wider...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-09-04
★★★★★
Brainfeeder On his second album for mentor Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder imprint, Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner appears to be more focused on spanking booties than slapping the bass. Sure, Apocalypse exhibits some of the dizzying four-string wizardry that has earned him tasty session man gigs for prolific artists like Snoop Dogg and Erykah Badu as well as a touring member position with Los Angeles thrash masters Suicidal Tendencies...
- www.relix.com
2013-07-09
★★★★★
One of the many charms of Thundercat's first album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, was the manner in which the supernaturally skilled bassist seemed to wing his way through songwriting -- stumbling upon ideas, going with the flow, goofing off -- and come up with brilliance. On his sharper, more focused second album, he works through anguish -- the loss of close friend and musical partner Austin Peralta -- with some staggeringly emotive and tightly composed content...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-09-06
★★★★★
Daft Punk's recent jaunt into antique-analog rootsiness may or may not signal a sea change in contemporary electronic production, but whatever the future holds, it's worth remembering that these kinds of affectations have been echoing across the pop landscape for years. Picking up on the vinyl-influenced woolliness that's always been a prevalent, if at times minor, strain in hip-hop and dance music, the tradition maintained by producers like J...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2013-07-08
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDThundercatApocalypseBrainfeeder2013 Tell us what you think: Rate and review this album In the two years since his debut album as Thundercat, the virtuoso bass...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-07-05
★★★★★
Unlike some of his Brainfeeder labelmates (Lapalux, Martyn), Thundercat prioritises vocals, R&B harmonies and traditional instruments over beats and bleeps. If you've come for the production of label jefe Flying Lotus, you get it, but with an added dose of Miguel-style cooing about breakups and makeups ('Heartbreaks & Setbacks')...
- www.nme.com
2013-06-25
★★★★★
It's hard to find a more 'Brainfeeder' artist than Stephen 'Thundercat' Bruner. He's got the jazz family connections box firmly ticked; and as his work on Cosmogramma showed, he has more than enough of the kind of technical chops that producer and label owner Stephen 'Flying Lotus' Ellison looks for in collaborators and signees. Spiritually he fits like a glove: his music is heavy with the cosmic Ra-isms, offbeat wit and soulful musings that have permeated the label's releases...
- drownedinsound.com
2013-06-21
★★★★★
The sophomore album from LA-based bassist/producer/singer Stephen Bruner, a close friend and collaborator to Stephen Ellison aka Flying Lotus (who co-produced Apocalypse), is another top-notch set of fluttery R&B, bouncy electro, cosmic jazz, old-school boogie, and more styles that continue to showcase his virtuosic bass skills, blossoming production talents, and soulful vocal chops. 6/21/2013
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- kexp.org
2013-06-22
★★★★★
June 17, 2013
On "Oh Sheit It's X," the playful highlight from his second album, Stephen Bruner invites us to join him "in this ecstasy" - or is it "in this Ecstasy"? Either way, the singer-bassist-songwriter (dba Thundercat) is opening a door into a private world; no one this year has made an album as original as Apocalypse...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-07-09
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