Thundercat honors his friend Mac Miller on the head-spinning ‘It Is What It Is.’ Read our review
Complex and conceptual as his music can get, Thundercat’s lyrics are often far more direct. On “Miguel’s Happy Dance,” he delivers a relentless self-help pep talk, setting up a one-liner, “It’s okay if it’s not going your way,” then deadpanning the punch line, “It never was.” Later, on “Funny Thing,” he fesses up, “Someone hold my phone, cause I can’t hold my tongue.” His sense of humor is steeped in cheeky idiocy, but floated by a kind empathy for the goofball.
tracks “Overseas” and “Dragonball Durag,” self-deprecating depictions of the dumb stuff we do to boost ourselves up when we’re trying to woo., lighter at the top, darker near the end. The album turns on the uneasy soul of “King of the Hill,” a look at self-destruction and “chasing cheap thrills” that makes one think back to the wasted friends reveling on the album’s early highlight “I Love Louis Cole.
“It is what it is” isn’t exactly a novel sentiment — “Que Será, Será,” is the same thing in French and future tense — but for Thundercat, neither is making music about the death of a close friend: The loss of collaborator and jazz musician Austin Peralta looms over his 2013 album, just as Miller’s does here.
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