The search for everything

"John Mayer first teased his seventh album, The Search for Everything, through a pair of EPs that contained eight of the record's 12 songs. It was a sly way for the singer/songwriter to ease back into his soulful side, a sound he largely abandoned during an extended dalliance with Laurel Canyon country-rock -- an infatuation that culminated in his position as a substitute Jerry Garcia in the Grateful Dead satellite group Dead & Company. Although it's ostensibly a breakup album, The Search for Everything doesn't feel haunted: Mayer glides through the record so smoothly, the supple sound seems almost insouciant. It is also quite alluring ... The Search for Everything succeeds because he's not donning a new costume: instead, he's settling into a groove he can claim as his own, and it feels like he's at home".

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"Der er ingen tvivl om, at den 39-årige amerikaner som guitarist, men også som sanger og sangskriver besidder et uomtvisteligt talent. Men efter en række album, solokoncerter og gæsteoptrædener med såvel popstjerner som rockikoner er det ikke desto mindre svært at blive klog på såvel hans egentlige ambition som hans formåen som albumkunstner. Det nye opus resulterer ikke i en afklaring. Det er et poleret album, hvilket der ikke ville være noget galt i, hvis pladen bød på et lækkert hit. Den slags finder man dog ikke med "Love On The Weekend" som et for spagfærdigt forsøg. "Emoji Of A Wave" er et godkendt lille stemningsfuldt værk, mens "Still Feel Like Your Man" er et soulpræget forsøg på at fremstå funky. Heller ikke her rammer Mayer dog for alvor skivens centrum".

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