While we chat one afternoon, he gets word that protests are headed his way helicopters are buzzing his neighborhood, and the 5 PM curfew approaches. He was already home in North Hollywood when It Is What It Is officially dropped on April 3, garnering high praise and inspiring more than one reviewer to note that the album’s themes of loneliness and loss (“Lost in Space,” “Unrequited Love,” “Fair Chance,” “It Is What It Is”), nostalgia (“Interstellar Love,” “Funny Thing,” “Overseas”), fear and technology (“Black Qualls”), dancing the pain away (“Miguel’s Happy Dance”), being vulnerable (“Dragonball Durag”), and sweet uncertainty (“How I Feel”) - as well as the perfectly titled “Existential Dread” - seemed eerily prescient.Īs Thundercat shelters in place, the murder of George Floyd, the nationwide protests that follow, and the general malaise - exacerbated by hot weather and lockdown-related restlessness - are on his mind. A week into the tour celebrating his latest album and just days after a joyful March 9 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the coronavirus pandemic took him off the road. Thundercat has all the reason in the world to feel like he’s in slo-mo. I feel like I’m in slow-motion right now.” “I saw Kamasi a couple days ago, and he was like, ‘This is the longest I’ve gone without genuinely playing my instrument in the manner that we do.’ It’s weird, man! It’s messing with my brain function. “Every day has been a mental … whatever you call this,” says Thundercat.
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