It Is What It Is

metacritic

pastemagazine

The ace bassist and producer pens a love letter to classic ’70s R&B without getting stuck in the past

rollingstone

Guests including Childish Gambino and Flying Lotus help the adventurous bass player/singer/songwriter/producer create a powerful LP

pitchfork

Three years after his 2017 opus Drunk, Stephen Bruner returns with more fleet-fingered jams and abstracted musings, this time a little more unpolished.

fantano

Thundercat's muddy mixes remain his Achilles' heel on the otherwise enjoyable It Is What It Is.

nme

versatile superstar mediates on life and death with tribute to Mac Miller