It Is What It Is
by Thundercat
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Thundercat bestography
It Is What It Is is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Thundercat on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Thundercat is Drunk which is ranked number 1954 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 868.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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It Is What It Is track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 78 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
It Is What It Is rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 4 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Hyggevinyl | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 57/100 | 2 |
| 2026 |  covecove | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 31/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | Johnnyo | GQ 2020 (2 B deleted) | 23/23 | - |
| 2026 | mjp11 | Best of the 2020s (2/20/2025) | 73/100 | - |
| 2026 | lanadeleswift | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 38/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  videoheadcleaner | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 4/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | jdizzle123456 | Top 91 Music Albums of 2020 | 76/91 | 1 |
| 2026 | videoheadcleaner | videoheadcleaner's 401-500 | 21/100 | - |
| 2026 | PapaShiz86 | Top 100 Music Albums of 2020 | 32/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | sweetness | Top 75 Music Albums of 2020 | 9/75 | 4 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 177 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 475 | |||
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It Is What It Is ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/08/2026 08:46 | TonySayers61 | 25,774 | 64/100 |
| ! | 03/25/2026 11:40 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,888 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/20/2026 20:47 | sweetness | 1,127 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 72.0/100, a mean average of 71.6/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 72.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 11.3.
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It Is What It Is forum mentions
Purplepash 08/04/2020 09:56 in What album are you listening to right now?
Jimmy Dread 06/24/2020 16:41 in Albums You Added To Your Collection Today
BestEverAlbums 04/03/2020 12:00 in Latest Releases (w\c 2020-03-30) (week 14, 2020)It Is What It Is comments
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Jazz, soul, funk, disco, electronics. Fusion. All this merges and solidifies along what is probably the most ambitious project of Thundercat. Bass lines take you on a journey of rhythms ranging from dizzying extroversion to dark zigzagging. The Stoic title suggests a work thought under the improvised control of Brunner’s jazztronic feelings.
"It Is What It Is is" never really settles on one concept or sound. One song will sound like a jazzy freeform and the next will be laid back funk. This variety helps the album by quickly moving on from the unsuccessful ideas but also prevents getting really invested in the good ones. The raw musical talent is what really holds the album together. Every instrument on here sounds fantastic. The most memorable song is easily the hilarious "Dragonball Durag". A scattered brained album but an enjoyable one.
mdbaxter TOP 100 COMMENTER 04/23/2020 15:26 | #250427 | TOP COMMENT
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Cohesive, inventive, entertaining and emotional. The grooves throughout the album are fantastic and the production is great. Thundercat's approach to addressing loss is poignant and very much in line with his character. The saddest parts feel even more affecting because of his humorous angle on things. "I Love Louis Cole" is my favorite song of the year thus far.
Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/08/2020 12:07 | #262269 | TOP COMMENT
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Risks being very samey, but it's a nice, original style. Just not sure it is good enough for a whole album.
"I Love Louis Cole" is a delight. Mostly because it is unlike the rest, yet it makes sense on the album.
HoldenM TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/27/2020 21:59 | #263309 | TOP COMMENT
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This thing sounds great, but other than something about a do-rag, I couldn't tell you anything else about this record. There's just no direction or thrust to this thing.
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