Jack Johnson – To The Sea (2010/2014) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Jack Johnson’s To The Sea debuted at number one in the US in 2010 and topped the charts in five other countries. Recorded again in two solar-powered studios, the material on this album broadened out the range of instrumentation with more electric guitar and was even a bit heavier than what was expected from Johnson. Nonetheless fans embraced this new sound, giving Johnson another US gold and Canadian platinum album. G. Love guests on harmonica on two tracks.

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.

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

Produced by Jack Johnson and Robert Carranza. Engineered by Robert Carranza.
Recorded at the Solar Powered Plastic Plant, Los Angeles, CA, & The Mango Tree, Hawaii.
Mastered by Bernie Grundman.

Musicians:
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

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