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Nov 28, 2016It's obvious he has a consummate ear for quality and potential. Listeners who share these sensibilities should be all over this release.
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Nov 28, 2016Mayer has always had an ability to weave the richest dancefloor cheese into forms both experimental and emotional, and here he’s chosen exactly the right people to amplify different sides of his music.
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Nov 28, 2016The album plays to his strengths. It is more playful than his last LP, and also more finessed.
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Nov 28, 2016As with other Mayer studio full-lengths (including the SuperMayer release), & has an anything-goes spirit, jumping from style to style and resisting expectations. It flows well as an album, though, starting out celebratory before getting darker and more sinister and finally ending up sublime and relaxed.
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Nov 28, 2016& is essentially a compilation of disparate tracks. There are a few good moments, enough decent efforts and some failures.