Drunk (album)

Drunk
Studio album by
Thundercat
ReleasedFebruary 24, 2017 (2017-02-24)
Recorded2015–2016
Genre
Length51:24
LabelBrainfeeder
Producer
Thundercat chronology
The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam
(2015) 		Drunk
(2017) 		It Is What It Is
(2020)
Singles from Drunk
  1. "Them Changes"
    Released: June 18, 2015 (2015-06-18)
  2. "Bus in These Streets"
    Released: August 24, 2016 (2016-08-24)
  3. "Show You the Way"
    Released: January 25, 2017 (2017-01-25)
  4. "Friend Zone"
    Released: February 15, 2017 (2017-02-15)
  5. "Walk on By"
    Released: February 22, 2017 (2017-02-22)

Drunk is the third studio album by American musician Thundercat,[1] released on February 24, 2017, by Brainfeeder.[2] It features guest appearances from Kenny Loggins, Michael McDonald, Kendrick Lamar, Wiz Khalifa, Mac Miller, and Pharrell.[3] It was released nearly four years after his previous studio album, Apocalypse.

Drunk incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including funk, hip hop, jazz, pop, psychedelia, punk rock, R&B, soft rock, and soul.[4] The album received positive reviews from music critics.[5] A ChopNotSlop remix from OG Ron C, DJ Candlestick, & the Chopstars entitled Drank was released as a special edition purple vinyl record.

  1. ^ Mertens, Max (January 25, 2017). "Thundercat Announces Third Album 'Drunk' Featuring Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Flying Lotus, and More". Vice. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  2. ^ O'Connor, Roisin (January 25, 2017). "Thundercat reveals details of third album 'Drunk' ft. Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Wiz Khalifa and Flying Lotus". The Independent. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  3. ^ Dandridge-Lemco, Ben (January 25, 2017). "Thundercat Announces Drunk Album, Shares "Show You The Way" With Michael McDonald And Kenny Loggins". The Fader. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  4. ^ Multiple sources:
    • Degrazia, Leah (February 24, 2022). "Thundercat Parlayed Critical Acclaim Into Mainstream Success With 'Drunk'". Genius. Retrieved October 4, 2023. Throughout the 23-track project, Thundercat effortlessly weaves together elements of funk, jazz, R&B, prog, and soul, while jumping from serious topics like police brutality to lighter fare such as friend-zoning.
    • Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (April 13, 2017). "Thundercat on breakout album Drunk, laughing at racism – and his 'sexy cat', Tron". The Guardian. Retrieved October 4, 2023. Drunk is a wild odyssey of 23 tracks – each less than three minutes long – that fuses Bruner's untouchable jazz credentials with punk, hip-hop, stoner psychedelia, funk and 80s soft rock, his soulful falsetto voice pondering subjects as varied as anime, losing your wallet and police brutality.
    • Gaillot 2017: Thundercat explores these impulses and what drives us to them on Drunk, a figure eight-shaped loop through jazz, R&B, and funk influences that serves as his third studio album.
    • Kot 2017: Drunk (Brainfeeder) crams 23 songs and snippets into 51 minutes that evoke the sumptuous jazz-infused R&B of the '70s [...]
    • Moore 2017: Genre [of Drunk]: Jazz/Pop/R&B [...] Thundercat's music, which takes on many forms all at once: '70s funk, R&B, punk with tinges of fusion [...] Each song [on Drunk] hovers around the two-minute mark, defying those '70s fusion forebears whose tracks could drag on over dense harmonies and time signatures.
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