The Beyond / Where the Giants Roam

Exclaim! calls it an EP and Clash a mini-album. Thundercat told Billboard it was conceived while work was under way on Flying Lotus's You're Dead!, Kamasi Washington's The Epic and Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly, with the four artists sharing ideas. Herbie Hancock plays keyboards on "Lone Wolf and Cub", Kamasi Washington saxophone on "Them Changes", Miguel Atwood-Ferguson arranged strings and Daddy Kev mastered it. It reached 9 on the US Heatseekers chart, 23 on the Independent chart and 21 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Metacritic scores it 81; Pitchfork gave 8.3 and ranked it 24 on its fifty best albums of 2015.