Grammy-winning singer-bassist Thundercat says that the saying “It Is What It Is” — which just so happens to be the title of his fourth album, out Friday — might actually help you cope with coronavirus anxiety. “We all come to that conclusion at a certain point,” he says of accepting that “it is what it is” to carry on in times of adversity and uncertainty. “Sometimes you don’t get the answers.
Sometimes you don’t get to draw a conclusion. It’s reality.” On his new LP, the alt-R&B artist born Stephen Bruner draws you into his own musical realm with a genre-bending mix of funk, jazz and psychedelic soul.
He flexes the creative chops that won him a Grammy with Kendrick Lamar in 2016 for “These Walls,” their “To Pimp a Butterfly” collaboration