Album · 2008
Sleep Through the Static
by Jack Johnson
Sleep Through the Static is an album by Jack Johnson, released in 2008 on Brushfire Records, with 15 tracks.
- 15
- Tracks
- 55 min
- Runtime
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Album · 2008
by Jack Johnson
Sleep Through the Static is an album by Jack Johnson, released in 2008 on Brushfire Records, with 15 tracks.
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15 tracks · 55 min
So at last the ex-surfer and green activist singer-songwriter delivers his dubstep metal album Oh alright, Sleep Through isn't a whole lot different from the Hawaii-born musician's previous outings. Depending on whether you’re a fan this could be good or bad. It's so easy to point to Johnson and cry 'bland!' or 'cozy!', but it's hard to argue with a multi-platinum track record. His status as a household name will be undoubtedly reinforced by this well-nigh perfect example of all his best traits. While Johnson has one mode of expression a lazy, loping, bluesy feel underpinned with chiming acoustics and lightly brushed skins, never burdened with tricky key changes of rhythmic surprises he does it excessively well. True, his delivery often falls on the wrong side of 'safe'. One longs for at least one ruggedly uptempo track filled with righteous bile. Yet, as Johnson himself states in Same Girl: ''I'm not a very good fighter am I?'' Johnson's admirable agenda of eco-love (a typical surfer’s stance, along with the vaguely cod-Zen philosophising) is well represented (All At Once) as are his anti-war feelings (the title track), but Sleep Through…is really the work of a man dealing with …