Apocalypse cover

Apocalypse

Released

The second album from Brainfeeder bass virtuoso Stephen Bruner takes the kinds of thematic obsessions usually glommed onto by internet tryhard geeks — gamer and anime and cat-owner jokes — and imbues them with a rhythmic-melodic slipperiness that ambushes you with The Feels just as much as his falsetto reckonings with mortality and ecstasy/mushroom mind-body divides do. It’s music that knows that noodling is silly, which is what makes it fun and thrilling when you’re good at it — and Thundercat is good at it, growing a beautiful garden in spilled bongwater.

Nate Patrin

Recommended by

Suggestions
In These Times cover

In These Times

Makaya McCraven
Superstore cover

Superstore

Sam Gendel
Break of Dawn cover

Break of Dawn

Goapele
Heaven cover

Heaven

Cleo Sol
Notes With Attachments cover

Notes With Attachments

Blake Mills, Pino Palladino
Ancient Mahogany Gold cover

Ancient Mahogany Gold

SassyBlack
Djesse Vol. 3 cover

Djesse Vol. 3

Jacob Collier
HEAVN cover

HEAVN

Jamila Woods
Landing on a Hundred cover

Landing on a Hundred

Cody ChesnuTT
Wines & Spirits cover

Wines & Spirits

Rahsaan Patterson
Where the Giants Roam cover

Where the Giants Roam

Thundercat
Candydrip cover

Candydrip

Lucky Daye