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- Summary: The latest full-length release from Thundercat features guest appearances by A$AP Rocky, Channel Tres, Lil Yachty, Mac Miller, Tame Impala, and Willow.
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- Record Label: Brainfeeder
- Genre(s): R&B, Pop/Rock
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Apr 1, 2026Thundercat surfaces with another wholeheartedly relatable and sonically mesmerizing LP. The artist’s fifth studio LP, Distracted, is an organically stunning and stubbornly present new chapter to Thundercat’s autobiographical discography, one that is both a poetic snapshot of the artist’s perspective and another refreshing take on Thundercat’s singular sound.
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Apr 3, 2026Distracted 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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UncutApr 1, 2026Distracted may be his most coherent album to date. Less prone to abrupt zigzags than its predecessors, it's his smoothest, too. [May 2026, p.35]
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Apr 2, 2026He'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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Apr 6, 2026Distracted works so well because it resembles a pop blowout at first, only to pull the shag rug out from under our feet.
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May 12, 2026From song to song, the album is rife with moments of arresting power like these, which makes it all the more tragic and frustrating that Thundercat can’t resist the urge to deface the music with his unrelentingly sophomoric sense of humor.
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Apr 3, 2026For his latest, Distracted, he strikes the middle point, embracing the P-funk pocket and synth-led psych-jazz in equal measure that feels unbalanced nonetheless.