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Jack Johnson - To the Sea (2010)
Artist..................: Jack Johnson
Album.................: To the Sea
Genre.................: Pop
Source...............: CD
Year..................: 2010
Ripper................: NMR
2010 release, the fifth studio album from the acclaimed singer/songwriter.
The album was produced by Robert Carranza, Jack Johnson, and his bandmates Merlo Podlewski, Zach Gill and
Adam Topol. To The Sea features guest appearances from the likes of G. Love, and Paula Fuga. The album was
recorded at the Mango Tree Studio in Hawaii, and the Solar Powered Plastic Plant in LA using 100% solar power.
Jack Johnson quietly turned into a star over the course of the 2000s, so it’s only fitting that he inaugurates the
second decade of his recording career with To the Sea, an album that feels like the work of a soft rock superstar.
Of course, that’s what Johnson is, but he’s avoided sounding that way by performing soft-shuffle acoustic
numbers, camouflaging his pop move as a soundtrack to Curious George, then getting mellowly introspective on
2008’s Sleep Through the Static. To the Sea blows away the drowsy cobwebs from Sleep, pushing the acoustic
guitar to the background and letting his band groove politely, usually in an amiable, unhurried gait that never
breaks a sweat even when the musicians goose the tempo a bit. Call it the signature of a surfer so bleached by
the sun that he rushes nothing, but To the Sea substitutes the sunset strum-alongs of his earliest records for a
sleek daytime sheen that might glimmer too brightly for hippies but it makes for a better overall pop record, the
kind of album that suits Jack Johnson’s stature as surfer turned AAA crooner.
To the Sea, the fifth studio album from surfer/songwriter Jack Johnson, features 13 new tracks, all of which are
destined to become the official summer 2010 soundtrack for collegiate volleyball games, post-graduation car
wash fundraisers, and spontaneous beach blanket siestas everywhere.
Personnel:
Jack Johnson (vocals, guitar, ukulele, Mellotron, percussion);
Zach Gill (melodica, piano, Wurlitzer organ, percussion, background vocals);
Adam Topol (glockenspiel, drums, percussion, background vocals);
Merlo Podlewski (percussion, background vocals).
TrackList:
01. You and Your Heart
02 . To The Sea
03 . No Good With Faces
04 . At Or With Me
05 . When I Look Up
06 . From The Clouds
07 . My Little Girl
08 . Turn Your Love
09 . The Upsetter
10 . Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology
11 . Pictures Of People Taking Pictures
12 . Anything But The Truth
13 . Only The Ocean
Playing Time.........: 00:41:24
Total Size...........: 232.00 MB (FLAC)
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