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Safari Man
Just a music lover. If it's done with passion and soul (and a strong bassline too), then probably it's some good quality vibrations.
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The new work of one of the most exciting bass players to emerge in the last decade is out and Stephen Lee Bruner aka Thundercat did a good job presenting us some new fresh material .
The Grammy winner starts off this album really genteelly with some nice jazz vibes in the opener "Lost in Space/ Great Scoot/ 22-26" which follows up with the first real song of the album. Then, on the third track, Thundercat really shows all his intergalactic funky vibe and weird fast paced fusion of R&B and Jazz, which is his trademark sonority, where Louis Cole features in. The album follows up with good features from other artists, being the best the one from TY Dolla Sign, always melting the air with his characteristic voice in the last minutes of this project in a sad ballad. Overall, besides the tracks that served as fillers in the middle of the album with less than 2 minutes, this album present us a good structured and well written piece of music project that could be so much, if it wasn't for its short duration, sometimes repetitive thematic and lack of new ideas for its lyrics, and like I said, some fillers that really didn't had a purpose of existing. Also, the lack of something new shows that Thundercat sound progression could be stagnating.
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: "I love Louis Cole" is by far one of the few tracks when we can clearly hear what makes S.Lee so different and so special in nowadays R&B and Jazz Fusion scene. It's fresh, it's overwhelming in a good way and I can't wait to hear more of that!
The Grammy winner starts off this album really genteelly with some nice jazz vibes in the opener "Lost in Space/ Great Scoot/ 22-26" which follows up with the first real song of the album. Then, on the third track, Thundercat really shows all his intergalactic funky vibe and weird fast paced fusion of R&B and Jazz, which is his trademark sonority, where Louis Cole features in. The album follows up with good features from other artists, being the best the one from TY Dolla Sign, always melting the air with his characteristic voice in the last minutes of this project in a sad ballad. Overall, besides the tracks that served as fillers in the middle of the album with less than 2 minutes, this album present us a good structured and well written piece of music project that could be so much, if it wasn't for its short duration, sometimes repetitive thematic and lack of new ideas for its lyrics, and like I said, some fillers that really didn't had a purpose of existing. Also, the lack of something new shows that Thundercat sound progression could be stagnating.
TRACK OF THE SPOTLIGHT: "I love Louis Cole" is by far one of the few tracks when we can clearly hear what makes S.Lee so different and so special in nowadays R&B and Jazz Fusion scene. It's fresh, it's overwhelming in a good way and I can't wait to hear more of that!
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