Continuum (review coming)

October 3rd, 2006 | Filed under Blog, Music, Reviews

Wow. Just wow.

I (finally) picked up the new John Mayer album (Continuum) tonight on an always exciting trip to target. In addition to the album we purchased a bike rack for the car but it doesn’t fit. You think they’d put that kind of info on the box? Maybe?

Anyway…this album is fantastic. Different than everything else, including his trio work, yet still…John. Now, I wasn’t all that big of a fan of Heavier Things, a few tracks are good, but it just didn’t click with me so I didn’t ever buy it. So for me to run out to the store and give another studio album a chance I had to do some serious meta-convincing. But it was so worth it. It’s intimate, dynamic and all around…it. “It” being exactly what I look for in good music.

I relate to this album as 23-year-old Matt in the same way I related to Inside Wants Out as an 18-year-old punk college kid…it just fits with me right now. Stop this Train is my new anthem and Gravity alone forced me to pick my electric guitar and jam along. And yes the groves are big enough that the girlfriend has already reprimanded me for foot-stopping.*

*Just kidding she’s already asleep and I wouldn’t want to wake her. :) Have a great night everybody and until next time…courage!

p.s. Here are a few other good tracks to check out today: Beautiful Man (Lori McKenna), Better Than Bleeding (L’altra) and the World Spins Madly On (The Weepies).