Stream John Mayer’s Eighth Studio Album ‘Sob Rock’

John Mayer’s long-awaited album Sob Rock is here.

Ahead of the project’s arrival, Mayer sat down with Zane Lowe, where the musician explained where he drew inspiration from while creating the album. He said that the pandemic gave him space to experiment and make a “provocative” and “antagonizing” record.

“You may just have to dress up your intentions to make something different. And call it by a name that no one else is going to call it after it’s made, and for me it was like, ‘I want to get in trouble. I want someone to tell me this is shit,’” he said.

He continued, “And I made a record that, to me at the time, only in a way to coax something out of me that I wouldn’t have normally done, shitpost a record. It’s called Sob Rock because it’s a shitpost. But more importantly, it’s what I thought was a shitpost, and this gets down to where artists sit in front of you and play you what they think is their garbage, and you go, ‘That’s the best thing I ever heard you play.’ It makes a mockery of their interpretation of the experience, which is just enough to break out of the mold and make something unique.”