![]() ![]() Where did all this come from? Was it from Austin Peralta’s passing? I was wondering about that emotional shift. And Teeb’s last album, E S T A R A was really melancholy, and, obviously, your new record is really, really depressing at some points. Like Flying Lotus going from Cosmogramma to You’re Dead!. ![]() I’ve been listening to a lot of Brainfeeder stuff over the last few years, but it feels like, in the last two or three years, some of the emotional direction of the albums has changed. ![]() We talked to Bruner and discussed the emotional shifts in his music, the strange numbness that accompanied the record, and laughing to stave off grief. Currently, he’s the go-to man for Flying Lotus and Kendrick Lamar, helping shape both 2014’s You’re Dead! and 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly (respectively), but his solo work sheds an occasionally harsh light on problems in the macro and the micro. Thundercat, also known as Stephen Bruner, has had a weird, wild journey to his current place as a bass prodigy working with everyone from Erykah Badu to Suicidal Tendencies. It, along with the rest of the record, reflects on strife and grief on a personal level and from a worldwide view. But, unlike his previous, more light-hearted songs, “Them Changes” has a deep emotional potency. It’s a brilliant, heartbreaking cut of funk and soul, filled with jittering bass and Thundercat’s signature crystal clear voice. At the core of Thundercat‘s newest release, The Beyond/Where the Giants Roam, is “Them Changes”.
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