24/3/15
Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams
This album was the first album I purchased. I was taken by the bright yellow cover art and immediately decided this was the album I was going to buy. Released in March of 2005 it was met with many mixed reviews from critics with most praising Johnson on his songwriting however the lack of experimentation from Johnson led to critics stating that it was just another played safe Jack Johnson album. The album never did anything outrageous to promote itself that wasn't the type of album it was, the music within the album made up for it's lack of promotion and it showed with the album taking #1 in the UK in its first week and reaching over 1.6 million sales. The album was released in 2005 under the Mango Tree record label. The album is my personal favourite as I feel like the album is relevant no matter what mood you are listening to it in.
The album is a very relaxed, acoustic guitar with easy listening melodies featured throughout.
Johnson shows throughout this album his talent for song-writing with songs such as "Better Together" & "Sitting, Waiting, Wishing" showing the depths he can go to when singing about heartbreak and then he manages to create songs such as "Banana Pancakes" "Do you Remember" in which he manages to switch the writing style from heartbreak to reflection, he does with a relaxed and similarly up-beat style.
The album plays to Johnson's strength of creating Laid-back, chilled music and his consistency throughout his numerous albums though not the worst thing in the world (if it's not broke, why fix it?) does lead to wondering if Johnson will ever be bold enough to step out of his comfort zone or if we can simply expect to continue hearing similar sounding albums with every release. The safety of Johnson's sound however has led to to him even managing to get a soundtrack he created for the movie "Curious George" to the number 1 spot in the US Billboard charts.
Thanks for Reading
Callum
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