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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