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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

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