Jack Johnson - Sleep Through The Static [2008]
Jack Johnson’s soundtrack to the 2006 film Curious George was a winsome piece of folk-pop that kept everything appropriately sunny and superficial. Sleep Through the Static, Johnson’s fourth proper LP, has been pitted by publicists and Johnson himself as the melancholic yin to Curious George’s carefree yang. By their accounts, this is the record on which the surfer-turned-musician wipes out on the insurmountable tidal wave of real life. He’s growing older and watching his children do the same, in an increasingly hostile world. More importantly, he’s still reeling from the untimely death of his cousin, Danny Riley (that’s him singing backup on “If I Had Eyes”), to whom the album is posthumously dedicated. Sleep Through the Static introduces electric guitar into the mix and–claims Johnson–references his punk-rock roots, all while delving into more mature themes. At least by Jack Johnson standards, it sounds poised to be an immensely dark and difficult album.
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1. All At Once
2. Sleep Through The Static
3. Hope
4. Angel
5. Enemy
6. If I Had Eyes
7. Same Girl
8. What You Thought You Need
9. Adrift
10. Go On
11. They Do, They Don’t
12. While We Wait
13. Monsoon
14. Losing Keys
