Buy Now
- Critic score
- Publication
- By date
-
Jul 8, 2013Denser and fathoms deeper, this is some kind of leap.
-
Jul 8, 2013There’s a wealth of sonic variety on display but the concise run-time--clocking in at a fraction over 40 minutes--keeps matters focused and thoroughly engaging.
-
Jun 14, 2013While he’ll probably never eclipse the flaming star that is label boss FlyLo’s reputation, Bruner here shows that he’s both his collaborator and peer, fusing a multi-genre musical mentality with a brilliantly sharp edge of accessibility.
-
Jun 11, 2013Thundercat’s advancements on Apocalypse reconfigure the foundation that his debut album built.
-
Sep 5, 2013Bruner has elevated his game into something worth noting and more importantly, worth following.
-
Jun 21, 2013Apocalypse is very literally a rewarding and difficult second album, with its roots in tragedy and loss and its furthermost fronds in hope and moving forward, an album that challenges listeners with an incredible level of subtlety, hidden depths and wash of openly expressed emotion.
-
Jun 4, 2013The album's winning touches come from Bruner's soulful vocal melodies. They're a calming element tying each of the record's varied creative efforts together beautifully.
-
MagnetJul 17, 2013The new Apocalypse is leaner and funkier than the more jazzy and sprawling Golden Age Of Apocalypse. [No. 100, p.59]
-
MojoJul 10, 2013Apocalypse is a multi-storied cosmic rollercoaster that asks the big questions while relocating hip hop on the astral plane. No mean feat. [Aug 2013, p.88]
-
Jun 3, 2013This album is the full realisation of his talent as a bass player, musician and, most importantly, a songwriter. Apocalypse is, in short, a supreme triumph.
-
Jun 24, 2013Though occasionally too florid, this bass cat’s on the path to majesty.
-
Jun 3, 2013If neither the lyrics nor bass lines break your heart, you might not have one.
-
Jun 7, 2013What comes up as a whole is this odd but endearing blend of plainspoken nonchalance and almost limitless musical eccentricity.
-
Q MagazineJul 10, 2013A dazzling alloy of vintage progressive jazz and synthetic digital funk fired by unashamedly cosmic aspiration. [Aug 2013, p.106]
-
Jun 18, 2013It's a bash-up of prog-rock, electronica and funk, in descending order of influence, and Bruner conjoins all of them to create a drifting, happily disorienting otherworld.
-
Jul 8, 2013Here Bruner again shows that he has the tools for crafting tuneful compositions, but presents little that's dynamic enough to anchor an entire album, resulting in innocuous background burbles that never come off as especially attention-grabbing.
-
Jun 3, 2013These songs are all excellent, and if the album had maintained that level of consistency it might have shaded into genius, but sadly the rest falls short, frequently lapsing into a pleasant but slight flexing of Thundercat’s considerable chops.
-
Jul 8, 2013On this collection of futurised soul and funk, Bruner shows skills as a songwriter too.
-
Jun 3, 2013The weird, aquatic-sounding requiems are getting better all the time.
-
Jul 8, 2013Immerse yourself, revisit, peel back the layers and thoroughly dissect Thundercat’s artistry before reconstructing it again--you’ll find one of the year’s finest experimental pop albu
-
Jun 10, 2013Apocalypse is bolder and clearer, less blissed-out and more grippingly immediate than [2011's The Golden Age of Apocalypse].
-
UncutJul 10, 2013The knotty, punky, Squarepusher-style edges of its predecessor have been smoothed down, with a little too much perfumed whimsy in the mix. [Aug 2013, p.77]
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
-
Positive: 28 out of 32
-
Mixed: 2 out of 32
-
Negative: 2 out of 32
-
Jul 12, 2018
-
Dec 3, 2014
-
Sep 22, 2013