Thundercat - Distracted Spinefarm great Captain Beefheart aka Don

great Captain Beefheart aka Don Van Vliet – often ably assisted by his Magic Band – rank amongst the most important and influential rock music ever created and continue to inform and influence musicians to this day whilst also garnering a following of new

subsumed to mystery and amassed from across the North of England

A Kieran Evans directed video for ‘Rosebud’ is online now

folk songs peppered in throughout the album are nuanced in their vocal delivery and

about real life

Thundercat - Distracted Spinefarm great Captain Beefheart aka DonReleased 3rd April 2026 SK says: "A kaleidoscopic meditation on relationships, grief and neurodiversity, helmed by three exec producers who bring their own flavours and collaborators: hitmaker Greg Kurstin, Kenneth 'Kenny Beats' Blume (fresh from Geese's mega 'Getting Killed') and longtime mentor Flying Lotus. 'cat's acolytes DOMi and JD Beck join him on the jazz fusion workout "Candlelight", The Lemon Twigs lend Brian Wilson Todd Rundgren power pop