Continuum

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Music
Genre:	Alternative Rock
Artist:	John Mayer

Coming out with his first single off the 3rd album, the song Waiting on the World to Change, John starts us off with a slightly irreverent and rebellious take on the status quo. Thats about as rock as he gets in the album (along with the single, Belief, which takes on the Iraq war), with the rest of the tracks taking a very soulful blues tone.

The reason why I have a high regard for this talented, self-conscious singer-songwriter is that his sense of introspection is unparalleled. And this brings us with very subtle, yet profound lyrics which offers us a different point of view of our world.

He may not appeal to everyone but, his work does to me, because I could relate to it. His music grows along with me, from the high-school angst in No Such Thing, the fumbling flirt in Your Body is a Wonderland, to the self-assured promising, idealistic youthful in Bigger than my Body, and virtually all his other songs.

With this album, I can sense a continuing growth and maturity in the artist as he talks about his ideals/beliefs and how he moves on from a bad relationship.

Also, he does a great cover of a Jimi Hendrix original, Bold as Love... a song which showcases his guitar skills.

5 stars to this album. This guy's good, and he'll continue to grow, and talk/sing about things that will continue to be relevant and that spring from his heart.