John Mayer’s eighth album, Sob Rock, has officially arrived. It’s the singer-songwriter’s first project since the release of 2017’s The Search For Everything. It includes songs that date back as far as 2018, with “New Light” dropping shortly after the release of his last album.
“This is the record where I had 10 songs locked. My record before suffered because the door was open to it the whole time—new songs would come in, old songs would go out. And so it became ‘This is my script, this is my movie.‘ We’re not going to write a different scene from a different movie,” he said to Apple Music. “This is the whole Sob Rock game—get sweet, but never sappy. It’s demonstratively sweet and luscious, and melodic and colorful, but it’s never to the point where it gets cloying and syrupy. I like to teeter on that line.”
