John Mayer – Continuum (US-press Vinyl 2LP)
$60.00
Continuum is about as apt a title as it gets for John Mayer’s third studio disc. Every element, from the peerless guitar playing to the plainspoken poetry of the lyrics to the breathy-sincere singing, makes a return from previous efforts. But to weakly pronounce this another worthwhile effort from an artist the world has come to expect a whole lot from and then call it a day would be no minor misdeed, because it’s also the best, boldest disc he’s ever made. Taking maturity as a theme throughout, Mayer tackles a batch of adulthood’s bogeymen: indifference on the uptempo chart-climber ‘Waiting for the World to Change,’ aging on the melancholy-sweet ‘Stop This Train,’ and emotional trainwreckage on the big-rocking ‘In Repair.’ That’s not to suggest he’s turned overly introspective–check the Jimi Hendrix cover ‘Bold As Love,’ where he hits one home for guitarists who’ve been living in the shadow of legend everywhere, and the hard-charging ‘Belief,’ which benefits from a mesmerizing, liquid groove. Continuum may be the third in a series, but a creative cop-out this is not; Mayer is his generation’s musical superman–powerful, unassailable, and magnetic. Hand that man a cape.
1. Waiting On The World To Change
2. I Don’t Trust Myself (With Loving You)
3. Belief
4. Gravity
5. The Heart Of Life
6. Vultures
7. Stop This Train
8. Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
9. Bold As Love
10. Dreaming With A Broken Heart
11. In Repair
12. I’m Gonna Find Another You
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