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Generally favorable reviews- based on 68 Ratings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 56 out of 68
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Mixed: 9 out of 68
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Negative: 3 out of 68
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Jul 2, 2020
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Jun 10, 2020
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Apr 12, 2020His best work to date. Most cohesive album with an emotional rollercoaster that brings you into the current state of someone trying to regain his strengths after losing somebody important.
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Apr 6, 2020Worthies (4/15):
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Apr 5, 2020Building off the sounds of “Drunk” and the space-age, atmospheric textures off of projects like Flying Lotus’s “Flamagra”, under which Thundercat had a heavy involvement in, “It Is What It Is” once again is another classic, seeming to only get better the more you listen to it.
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Apr 4, 2020
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Apr 3, 2020
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Apr 3, 2020It's a really solid, funky and consistent Thundercat album with great production, "It Is What It Is" makes you feel a little bit happier in these hard times.
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Apr 3, 2020Delivering more of what everyone's hungry for, It Is What It Is ticks all the boxes without ever being predictable.
Irresistibly funky and playful, the Drunk follow up presents a matured and soulful Thundercat on an album that makes its 37 minute run-time an absolute joy.
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The WireApr 28, 2020It Is What It Is is a fitting ethos for an artist whose genre-twisting tendrils have extended themselves into the highest reaches of the pop canopy, simultaneously flexing their deep funk and jazz roots. [May 2020, p.62]
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Apr 15, 2020On It Is What It Is, Bruner—unlike Pastorious—finds a way out, channeling his pain into great, uplifting art.
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Apr 14, 2020It Is What It Is isn’t the worthy successor to Drunk, but it certainly feels like its ideal companion piece.