JOHN MAYER-SOB ROCK REVIEW.

 Back in July John Mayer dropped his long-awaited album, Sob Rock. The project comes three years after the first single (included on the album), New Light, which showed the direction of John Mayer's new music: very synthed and 80s-influenced. This is revealed again  in Last Train Home, with synths that recall Toto's smash hit Africa. To promote this song, Mayer teased it saying 'New music done the old way'. This seems the motto for the album and it really fits together with the sound of it: John Mayer goes back in time, to the 80s to make his new music and looks to the production and arrangements of those times, like in  the Christopher Cross-influenced Shot in the Dark. 

The ensemble of 10 tracks contains the three previous singles: the mentioned New Light, the soul-pop Carry Me Away and I Guess I Just Feel Like, which remained closer to the usual Mayer's sound. 

In the remaining seven tracks, John Mayer coquets with other genres, from country and western (Why You No Love Me and All I Want Is To Be With You) and the bluegrass touch of Til the Right One Comes, to rawer rock in the Dire Straits-inspired Wild Blue, whose video follows the aesthetical direction of New Light .

Looking to the lyrics, the main topic is love, as it's usual in his discography, even if existentialism remains in I Guess I Just Feel Like: John deals with break-up (Why You No Love Me), but there's a hope for finding the final true love , as it's shown in Til the Right One Comes or on the lyrics 'Maybe you're the last train home'.

On Sob Rock, John Mayer looks to 80s-pop without losing his songwriting style and his passion for electric guitar, getting a warm soft-pop-rock ensemble, that becomes a very pleasant listening.