★★★★★
If there's one thing you can't accuse John Mayer of, it's that his music is generic and pigeonholed. As a recording artist, his styles have ranged from radio friendly pop rock to blues, to folk, country and even white-man soul. Examining his sixth studio record Paradise Valley, it's interesting to see where his musical direction is shifting to now. On a first listen-through the first thing you notice with this record is how mellow and chilled out it is...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-08-29
★★★★★
You might know him as the multi-platinum selling, multi-Grammy winning, musician with three number one albums in America, or you might know him as "that bloke off the tabloids who dated Jennifer Aniston/Katy Perry/Taylor Swift etc". It's definitely a case of John Mayer's fame (infamy?) overshadowing his success and, more disappointingly, his talent...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-09-07
★★★★★
You might know him as the multi-platinum selling, multi-Grammy winning, musician with three number one albums in America, or you might know him as "that bloke off the tabloids who dated Jennifer Aniston/Katy Perry/Taylor Swift etc". It's definitely a case of John Mayer's fame (infamy?) overshadowing his success and, more disappointingly, his talent...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-08-23
★★★★★
So, as it turns out, John Mayer wasn't just having a bit of fun. Born & Raised, the singer-songwriter's sixth studio album, was in some ways a natural progression following his increasing love affair with the blues, particularly with records like the masterful Continuum and to a lesser extent Battle Studies...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-08-21
★★★★★
So, as it turns out, John Mayer wasn't just having a bit of fun. Born & Raised, the singer-songwriter's sixth studio album, was in some ways a natural progression following his increasing love affair with the blues, particularly with records like the masterful Continuum and to a lesser extent Battle Studies...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-09-05
★★★★★
The problem with John Mayer is that he forces you to look at his music through the prism of his very public and often cringe worthy personal life. Perhaps that's true with other high profile musicians but seldom has an introspective, roots based singer/songwriter clearly motivated by country, folk, soul and blues made himself look so contradictory by dating glitzy, somewhat vapid female pop stars...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-08-20
★★★★★
John Mayer has made a career of growing up (or failing to grow up) in public, and Paradise Valley, his sixth studio album, continues that autobiographical journey. As its title (a reference to Mayer's Montana retreat) indicates, this chapter finds him in a relaxed, joyful frame of mind. And why not? After two throat surgeries, his voice is fully restored, and his personal life has ceased to be a tabloid fixture...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-08-20
★★★★★
John Mayer's 2013 album, the Americana-tinged Paradise Valley, is an introspective if somewhat more upbeat affair than his similarly country-inflected 2012 release, Born and Raised. With that album, Mayer was coming off a rough career patch that found him issuing a mea culpa for an infamously loose-lipped 2010 Rolling Stone interview...
- www.allmusic.com
2013-08-22
★★★★★
Tell a bunch of people you meet at a party that John Mayer is one of your favorite songwriters, and you may get a few curt nods, perhaps even one or two wide-eyed declarations of agreement, but quite often, you will see rolled eyes and barely restrained scoffs instead. Whether a result of the off-putting public persona Mayer was putting forth a few years ago or a lingering disrespect for the artist's early pop radio hits, I have found that a lot of people still dismiss John Mayer as an asshole,...
- absolutepunk.net
2013-08-19
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