Thundercat Announces New Album Distracted

Thundercat is set to release his first album in six years. Distracted is out April 3 via Brainfeeder Records, and includes the single, “I Did This To Myself” with Lil Yachty, along with additional production from Kenny Beats, Flying Lotus, and the Lemon Twigs. The album also features “She Knows Too Much,” a previously unheard collaboration with Thundercat’s late friend Mac Miller, plus guest spots from A$AP Rocky, Tame Impala, Channel Tres, and Willow.

Distracted deals with the overflow of information in the current digital age along with the grind of existing within the attention economy. It also continues the themes of grief explored in Thundercat’s fourth album, It Is What It Is, which was partially written about the sudden loss of Miller. “I don’t think the heartbreak ever stopped,” the bassist and singer writes in a press release for Distracted. “If it ain’t a girl, it’s taxes. If it ain’t taxes, it’s World War III. If it ain’t World War III, it’s a new update to the phone.”