{"id":8408,"date":"2026-01-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/thundercat-new-album\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:00:00","slug":"thundercat-new-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/thundercat-new-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Thundercat Welcomes A$AP Rocky, Tame Impala On New LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.spin.com\/files\/2026\/01\/PRESS-New-Thunder-Session-Album2868-CREDIT_Neil_Krug-scaled.jpg\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Thundercat (photo: Neil Krug)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thundercat will roar back on April 3 with his fifth album, <em>Distracted<\/em>, which will arrive exactly six years since its predecessor, <em>It Is What It Is<\/em>. The Greg Kurstin-produced project is led by first single \u201cI Did This to Myself,\u201d which features Lil Yachty.<\/p>\n<p>Other high profile guests on the Brainfeeder album include A$AP Rocky, WILLOW, Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker, Channel Tres and Thundercat\u2019s close friend, the late Mac Miller, who appears on the previously unreleased \u201cShe Knows Too Much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More from Spin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/my-morning-jacket-acoustic-charity-lp\/\">My Morning Jacket Unveils Acoustic Charity LP<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/what-the-clios-teach-us\/\">What The Clios Teach Us<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2026\/01\/fulton-lee-is-feeling-alright\/\">Fulton Lee is Feeling \u2018Alright\u2019<\/a>\n\t\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if I was going for sound as compared to just enjoying the process,\u201d Thundercat says of the album. \u201cIt was not being afraid of the unknown for me. Something new and something different.\u201d Reflecting on the transition from <em>It Is What It Is <\/em>to <em>Distracted<\/em>, he offers, \u201cI don\u2019t think the heartbreak ever stopped. If it ain\u2019t a girl, if it ain\u2019t taxes, it\u2019s World War III. If it ain\u2019t World War III, it\u2019s a new update to the phone.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<lite-youtube videoid=\"wpmuQSCNR_4\" style=\"bottom: 0; height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; right: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; max-width:100%;\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Thundercat\u2019s trademark sense of humor and love for nerd-leaning pop culture is evident on several of the song titles, which include \u201cAnakin Learns His Fat,\u201d \u201cPozole\u201d and \u201cA.D.D. Through the Roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>It Is What It Is<\/em> was Thundercat\u2019s first to dent the Top 40 of the\u00a0<em>Billboard\u00a0<\/em>200 when it debuted at No. 38 in 2020. He\u2019s since appeared on tracks with Silk Sonic, Tame Impala, Justice, Kaytranada, Gorillaz, Remi Wolf and DOMI and JD BECK.<\/p>\n<p>Thundercat will tour Europe and the U.K. in March and will announce additional North American dates soon.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-here-is-the-track-list-for-distracted\">Here is the track list for <em>Distracted<\/em>:<\/h2>\n<p>1. Candlelight<br \/>2. No More Lies (feat. Tame Impala)<br \/>3. She Knows Too Much (feat. Mac Miller)<br \/>4. I Did This To Myself (feat. Lil Yachty)<br \/>5. Funny Friends (feat. A$AP Rocky)<br \/>6. What Is Left to Say<br \/>7. I Wish I Didn\u2019t Waste Your Time<br \/>8. Anakin Learns His Fat<br \/>9. Walking on the Moon<br \/>10. This Thing We Call Love (feat. Channel Tres)<br \/>11. ThunderWave (feat. WILLOW)<br \/>12. Pozole<br \/>13. A.D.D. Through the Roof<br \/>14. Great Americans<br \/>15. You Left Without Saying Goodbye<\/p>\n<p>To see our running list of the top 100 greatest rock stars of all time, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2021\/07\/the-greatest-rock-stars-of-all-time\/?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=bottomlink&amp;utm_campaign=yahoolink\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thundercat (photo: Neil Krug) Thundercat will roar back on April 3 with his fifth album, Distracted, which will arrive exactly six years since its predecessor, It Is What It Is.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5207,783,606,2050,6,24,3758],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greg-kurstin","category-kevin-parker","category-lil-yachty","category-mac-miller","category-news","category-pushly","category-thundercat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}