“Yeah, it was ‘Pretend someone made a record in 1988 and shelved it and it was just found this year,’” is how Mayer recently explained the idea to the great fashion/rock newsletter Blackbird Spyplane. Let’s make clear immediately that your boy commits to the bit until it ceases to be a bit at all.

A tasty but desperately lonely Clapton riff wallowing at the uneasy nexus of “Wonderful Tonight,” “Tears in Heaven,” and (spiritually) “Cocaine.” An ornately dug Tunnel of No Love Whatsoever. A turquoise-tinted illumination of Dire Straits. A guilty-conscience-ridden End of the Innocence. Rock?) write themselves but wither in the mere presence of that smolder-is an abjectly lovelorn ’80s-soft-rock goof. Indeed, Mayer’s irony-proof eighth album-the jokes ( Saab Rock? S.O.B. His gaze is smoldering so hard it takes you forever to fully absorb the haircut. You’ve probably already seen the album cover, but I need you to look at it again.įor a not-funny album, this is a legitimately great gag: Come for the Reagan-core The Nice Price sticker, stay for the Apple-pandering price tag and subtle (?) hint of dopey geometric art. What we’ve got here is an impressively rendered, baffling tonal conundrum. Sob Rock also includes my favorite John Mayer song in the past 12 years Sob Rock also includes, to my mind, the two saddest songs he’s ever sung. The song is from a new John Mayer album called Sob Rock. What we got here is a new John Mayer song called “Why You No Love Me.” Not a typo.

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