Thick, bubbling basslines collide with the glow of old arcade screens, wrapping you in a warm cloud of analog synthesizers. It feels like drifting through a late-night sci-fi cartoon, where cosmic jazz fusion meets sweet, airy soul. This debut carved out a strange, beautiful space where virtuosity feels like play.
“What most characterises this brilliant album is not doom-and-gloom prophecies but rather a sense of luxuriating in the wide parameters of this music - it’s a sensory and visionary experience”Read review
“Offering a vision more golden age than apocalypse, Thundercat’s music sparkles, and the effect is both lovely ?and overwhelming”Read review
“Equal parts futuristic space jazz fusion and hip-hop that does well to bridge the seemingly disparate corners of Thundercat’s sprawling resume”Read review
“A little muscle, and maybe even a little heavy-metal menace, would have balanced the album out nicely”Read review
“Whether dropping heavy slabs of future jazz or multi layered slices of fusion the musicianship here is simply stunning”Read review
“There’s a completely unique blend of textures and a desire for musical experimentation running through the bloodstream of The Golden Age of Apocalypse”Read review
“No moment is quite like the last. Before the listener knows it, Thundercat deposits them into soft clouds of Fender magnificence, tickles heels with indulgent guitar and soothes brows with an angelic choir or two”Read review
How does The Golden Age of Apocalypse sound next to the rest of Thundercat's catalogue?
This album stays in step with the catalogue across the board — no axis departs enough to be worth its own note. Hover the dots to see where each one sits.
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