Sob Rock gets off to a promising start with “Last Train Home,” an ’80s-inspired track where Mayer appears to confront his 20-plus years of bad romantic luck, admitting that he’s getting too old to waste his time on relationships that won’t make it to the end of the line. Sob Rock is not a bad album it’s an unremarkable one - the few places where Mayer does try and succeed at something new are overshadowed by the rest of the record’s stale, formulaic songs. Mayer is a brilliant guitarist and a (mostly) talented songwriter, but his abilities have become paralyzed by his seeming inability to break free of the chrysalis he spun for himself more than 10 years ago. Unfortunately, Mayer’s latest album, Sob Rock, indicates that the growth might have stopped there. He moved away from the public eye while he recuperated from a career-threatening vocal cord condition, moved to Montana and worked on the album Born and Raised, a stark departure from his previous work - it seemed to mark a transition into a more mature, self-aware period of the artist’s life. In the late 2000s, John Mayer underwent a “ thinking man’s fiasco ,” which climaxed in 2010 with a pair of high-profile, highly problematic magazine interviews that turned the spotlight away from his songwriting and onto his controversial, gossip-fueling personal life.
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