Every review i’ve read about the new Thundercat album is that it sounds like Erykah Badu. Almost every review about this album is comparing this work to every genre (jazz/London broken beat/trip hop) and artist (Badu/Miles Davis/Mouse on Mars) that the writers are tripping over themselves flexing their skills in pinning down who this sounds like. The truth is that The Golden Age of the Apocalypse sounds like robots playing soul music. That Sade type soul—the type of stuff that you may hear in certain places where older men and women try and meet and hook up. Thundercat (and Flying Lotus) produced a sound evoking robots playing soul music, just slightly too weird for old people meat markets. Read the rest on In Your Speakers
