Slime Season, Flu Season, Season of the WitchBass god Stephen Bruner, known the world over as Brainfeeder mainstay Thundercat, who has been playing his thunderbroom all over lately. I know I wrote about how much I loved his “Them Changes” already, but the video for that jam—in case you missed it—is some high-pro melancholy that’s perfect for your October gloom-trip. I love in just one track off of To Pimp a Butterfly, Thundercat, Flying Lotus, Kamasi Washington, and George Clinton brought the vanguard of rap, jazz, beat, and funk to the same table—or just illustrated how they’re all just points in the continuum of black music. (Attempting to define these things for those people whom it was not created to free and nourish is just not anything I’m interested in, so funk dat.)…
