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9.0
144236
9.0 |
Earmilk
Distracted is more than just another installment in his legacy as an artist; it's a pillar of alliance and love, new and old
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9.0
144313
9.0 |
The Quietus
Distracted feels like something rarer: a deeply human, painstakingly crafted album. Stephen Bruner has taken our collective exhaustion, our grief, and our hyper-connectivity, and transmuted them into a masterpiece of progressive R&B
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8.5
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8.5 |
Northern Transmissions
Thundercat invites listeners into a space where confusion, beauty, and pain coexist, reminding us that even in a fractured world, there is still room to feel, create, and live fully
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8.0
144207
8.0 |
Uncut
Distracted may be his most coherent album to date. Less prone to abrupt zigzags than its predecessors, it's his smoothest, too. Print edition only
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8.0
144208
8.0 |
Mojo
Thundercat has finally made the all-out pop album he's been hinting at. It fits like a glove. Print edition only
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8.0
144209
8.0 |
All Music
He's still finding joy inside the pain, supplying the high notes with that ethereal contratenor and the low end with those sinuous basslines
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7.8
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7.8 |
Pitchfork
Tapping celebrity guests like A$AP Rocky and Tame Impala for an album of silky cosmic funk, Thundercat channels the id of the geeky, emotionally maladjusted loner
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7.4
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7.4 |
Spectrum Culture
Distracted works so well because it’s loaded with the contradictions of his personality (or perhaps his pop persona), both sonically and lyrically
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7.0
144227
7.0 |
Rolling Stone
On his new album, Distracted, the bassist and R&B visionary stares down loss while making the struggle as beautiful, funny, spacey, and vibe-y as he can
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7.0
144210
7.0 |
musicOMH
The American musician serves up audio comfort food with some stylistic progression and a generous helping of technical skill
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7.0
144235
7.0 |
Spill Magazine
Thundercat continues to demonstrate himself as one of music’s most impressively pioneering and experimental forces necessary for keeping things interesting but perhaps Distracted doesn’t quite meet the hype of a six-year gap
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5.8
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5.8 |
Paste Magazine
Stephen Bruner’s first album in six years contains glimmers of his in-the-pocket bass skills, but it too often cedes ground to mid-tempo monotony
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