In between surfing sessions and making college kids fall in love with his acoustic jams, Jack Johnson hit the studio to record his fifth album. Entitled To the Sea, this LP is the singer-songwriter’s first in more than two years. Check out an interview with Jack Johnson and MTV about the new album that comes out June st 2010:
The album is called To the Sea. I guess it’s a reference to a father leading his son to the sea, with the water representing the subconscious. So it’s about trying to go beneath the surface and understand yourself,” Johnson told MTV News on Tuesday. “I have three kids … so the album is about that. It’s both me as a son of my own father and me looking down at my kids. I’m 34, right at this transition of still feeling like a child sometimes, but other times feeling like a father, and finding the father in myself. It’s all about those things.”
Recorded in just three weeks in Johnson’s Mango Tree Studios, Sea is meant to capture the man and his band as they’re supposed to be heard: live and loose. It was mainly committed to tape in one room, with minimal use of overdubs, and an increased focus on letting the instruments bleed into one another. It is very much the sound of a band setting up in a room and just playing.
“We don’t need much time. Just four guys in the band, we try to get it live as much as we can, keep as much of it with the bleeds in it,” Johnson smiled. “Three weeks is about as long as we could spend, because we tend to start overthinking things if we go longer than that. We’re a pretty small band, with pretty simple songs.”
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i love jack johnson sooo much and am super and am stoked about the new album!
going to his concert this summmmer!
Yeahhh. Jack kills it! It’s always a toss up for me between him and Ben Harper.
Keep it simple Jack. That’s the best thing about you and your band.
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Jack Johnson is my favorite artist ever! he is so chill and awesomee. im going to see his concert sooon