Sleep Through The Static Rar
Sleep Through The Static: Remixed (Int'l 6Trk Digital EP) Digital Media: 6: XW 2008-09-22; Sleep Through the Static: 2×CD: 14 + 6: AU 2008; Brushfire Records. Sleep through the static I know, it's hardly practical to attempt a media blackout when you work in the sports department of a newspaper. But trust me when I say I did my damnedest.
Sleep Through the Static第二周在告示牌200大排行還是第一名，那時已經銷售超過180000張專輯。 而第三周時還是排行第一，銷售了105000張專輯。 在第四周時名次下滑到第3名，銷售92000張。 曲目列表 'All at Once' - 3:38 'Sleep Through the Static' - 3:43 'Hope'（與Zach Rogue）- 3:42. Sleep Through the Static is the fourth studio album by Jack Johnson, released February 1, 2008.
(Brushfire)
Sleep Through The Static Chords
First Appeared in The Music Box, February 2008, Volume 15, #2
Written by John Metzger
Tue February 19, 2008, 10:00 AM CST
Fatherhood has a way of changing a person’s perspective on life. So does the untimely death of a young relative. Even Jack Johnson, the pro-surfer-turned-pop-star, isn’t immune to the cataclysmic paradigm shifts that such major events typically bring. Since issuing his debut Brushfire Fairytales in 2001, Johnson consistently has demonstrated his knack for pulling terrific melodies out of thin air. Yet, his arrangements and his lyrics have been too banal for their own good. He had promised that his new effort Sleep through the Static would be a departure from his past work, and although he doesn’t make a statement that is as grand as many had hoped, the set does at least find him moving forward in the right direction.
Musically speaking, Johnson plays Sleep through the Static close to his vest. Although the addition of keyboardist Zach Gill to his core band of drummer Adam Topol and bass player Merlo Podlewski has opened a few more doors for him, he only tentatively steps through them, making merely minor alterations to his signature style. It’s never an easy decision, of course, to mess with an identifiable brand name, and Johnson certainly has staked his claim to the mellow, folk-rock, surfer scene. After all, he has defined himself not only through his own catalogue of material, but also through his record label, which has launched the careers of fellow soul-stirrers Donavon Frankenreiter and Matt Costa.
To his credit, Johnson managed to sidestep the tediously monotonic ennui that has plagued his prior efforts, though Sleep through the Static remains less engaging than it otherwise could have been. Whenever he dabbles in reggae textures — such as on Hope, a song that he wrote with Rogue Wave leader Zach Rogue — he sounds like a supremely subdued version of Anthony Kiedis. Elsewhere, he cops from Meddle-era Pink Floyd (What You Thought You Need), while reaching for Jackson Browne and James Taylor on the title track and Same Girl, respectively. Yet, it still feels like something is missing, as if Johnson is holding back on submitting himself completely to the artistic process.
In a similar fashion, the lyrics that Johnson penned for Sleep through the Static never quite hit their mark. Yet, it nonetheless is here that he has shown the most growth. While it’s true that his work still lacks the poetic qualities as well as the cohesiveness of Browne’s or Taylor’s output, Johnson at least has dropped his tendency toward writing annoyingly mundane love songs with nonsensical rhyming schemes. Not only does he look further inside himself, but he also continues to move outward, sharing his ruminations upon the state of the world — which, most notably, are centered around the war in Iraq — thus building upon some of the concepts that infiltrated his previous endeavor In Between Dreams. This time, the heavier themes that he tackles tug a little harder at the corners of Sleep through the Static, thereby providing an indication that, perhaps, there is more to Johnson than waves crashing upon sun-kissed Hawaiian beaches.
Considering, however, that three years have separated his most recent endeavors, it’s frustrating that Johnson falls shy of making a bigger personal breakthrough. Instead of a surface abrasion, Johnson has opened a few wounds, but in the end, the cuts that he made aren’t deep enough to allow his soul to devour his commercial aspirations. For all of the individual moments that succeed, for all of his well-intentioned ideas, and for all of the genuinely lovely arrangements that he creates, Sleep through the Static inevitably falls into a long, slumberous slipstream that begs for some spice. Still, one can hope that, regardless of what the sales figures for the album happen to be, Johnson’s maturing perspective — which was born from his concerns over the future that he will leave for his children — will continue to evolve, rather than stagnate or disappear into the ether from which they seemingly formed.
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Ratings
1 Star: Pitiful
2 Stars: Listenable
3 Stars: Respectable
4 Stars: Excellent
5 Stars: Can't Live Without It!!
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Sleep Through The Static Vinyl
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 the dreadful burden of domestic bliss. It's filled with songs about his wife (Angel) and children (Go On). But then again, why not? It would be so easy to label Johnson as some bland poster boy for middle class mediocrity, yet a closer glimpse at his lyrics show a man who has both a soul and a brain. The only danger is that his style is so relaxed that the message often gets lost in the warmth of it all. Musically (the speed going from slow to fairly slow) it becomes an unvariegated lump of acoustic comfort: Charming but lacking a little bite. Yet it's expertly delivered.
Sleep Through The Static Lyrics
That's what he's good at. We should be thankful that someone so prominent is both concerned for the planet and our hearts. As long as you're not expecting to be drastically challenged you're in safe hands. And sometimes that's quite enough.