The Search For Everything
| John Mayer
The Search For Everything
The Search for Everything is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter John Mayer, released by Columbia and Sony Music on April 14, 2017.
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Red Dirt Report
It’s sweet and beautiful.
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Pitchfork
John Mayer suffers simultaneously from an excess of taste and an oblivious lack of it
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The Hoya
Mayer’s latest album, “The Search for Everything,” is delightful.
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CU Independent
I really do appreciate John Mayer as a singer and guitarist, but this album is a sad excuse of a revival for him.
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Daily Duke
This album is a combination of all Mayer’s styles in one.
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Swansea Student Media
Yet another album, spanning numerous musical styles, techniques, and vibes had been delivered.
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EW
It’s a breakup album.
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The Young Folks
Some of the folky songs are good, as they seemed to be his most thoughtful tracks, but the rest of the album felt very lazy and half-hearted.
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AXS
Ultimately, John Mayer would be justified in considering The Search for Everything a personal and musical triumph.
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Kansan
In the end, “The Search for Everything” provides some of Mayer’s best work since the mid-2000s.
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DBK News
John Mayer’s ‘The Search for Everything’ falls short
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Exepose
All I can say is I hope he finds love one day, mainly for the selfish reason that it’ll make for one unforgettable album.
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SF Chronicle
“The Search for Everything,” comes off sounding more bloodless than ever.
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The National
John Mayer fails to sizzle in The Search for Everything.
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Daily Bruin
As the album stands now, Mayer could certainly have stood to dig a little deeper in his search for everything.
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Fansided
John Mayer’s seventh studio album, The Search for Everything, is a safe, ultimately middling project that fails to find the musical heights of the singer-songwriter’s past albums.
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Substream Magazine
John Mayer delivers something special with ‘The Search for Everything’
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News Day
John Mayer falls short.
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Hollywood Life
If John Mayer’s New Album Is An Attempt To Win Back Katy Perry, It’s A Poor One
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Dylan Galvin Music
As a lifelong fan I was very happy. As a critic I was happy.
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Entertainment
Heartfelt and soulful. A return to Mayer's earlier sound. A bit too downtempo.
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SJR
John Mayer’s latest album ‘The Search for Everything’ feels both different and familiar
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The Musical Hype
39-year old Pop/rock darling John Mayer comes back strong on his first new album after a four-year hiatus, ‘The Search for Everything.’
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The Music
"Broken-hearted Mayer's artistic exploration feels safe, soulless and just plain sad."
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Music
John Mayer loses all trace of anything interesting in The Search For Everything
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Written In Music
a sizzling collection of songs by musician and composer, who once again have to experience some rottenness that can serve as a source of inspiration.
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Sputnik Music
this is overall shaping up to be one of the most interesting releases in Mayer's career, and also his best for many years.
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Indie Sound
Overall, the album was a cohesive collection of Mayer’s truth and emotional lyricism. Although he touched on many melancholic themes, such as heartbreak, his songs somehow made you feel better.
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Podcast
“who gives a shit how many chords there are, it’s just awesome.”
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Chorus
I’d like to have a more adventurous LP next time around, but for now, this one sounds pretty good to me.
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Solent Music
the album is shaping up to be an interesting release and possibly Mayer’s best album yet.
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Syn City
It’s a near-triumphant return to the pop/rock community, but fans would be wishing he came with more, given his immense talent.
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Zumic
Sixteen years later, and The Search For Everything displays a musician who has matured in his songwriting and gotten more reflective lyrically.
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Spectrum Culture
The Search for Everything is the singer-songwriter’s most self-aware record to date.
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Tom Caswell
one of Mayer’s best to date.
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Immortal Reviews
JOHN MAYER STAYS SMOOTH IN "THE SEARCH FOR EVERYTHING"
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Southern Minn Scene
John Mayer begins to grow up on his seventh album
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Houston Press
John Mayer's Search for Everything Leads to Some Sweet Sounds
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Courier Journal
John Mayer still searching on new album.
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Daily Game Cock
John Mayer's new album leaves fans searching for something.
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Brent Music Reviews
39-year old Pop/rock darling John Mayer comes back strong on his first new album after a four-year hiatus, ‘The Search for Everything.’
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Star 2
The Search For Everything, will make you feel nostalgic and hopeful for a new beginning at the same time.
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Red And Black
Let us all hope that “The Search for Everything” serves as a therapeutic release for Mayer as his obsession with his own broken heart is becoming concerning.
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The Spectrum
John Mayer has been wandering in the wilderness for many years. But it appears as if he’s found a new musical home.
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Love Good Culture
There’s nothing new under the sun: but some things are much, much more worth repeating and rephrasing than others.
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Celeb Mix
The Search For Everything is finally available in its entirety and it lives up to all the hype we had in our minds.
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WLOY
This album has a new vibe to it with something we haven’t heard from John Mayer.
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Headliner Magazine
Albums with zero filler are such a rare and cherishable thing, and The Search For Everything is just one of those albums.
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Blues Magazine
Despite the fact that it has become an album that performs well on Sunday mornings while enjoying an espresso or a cup of tea, 'The Search For Everything' is good to listen to.
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The Ithacan
Catchy bass lines and Mayer’s freedom on the fretboard will keep the new “The Search for Everything” playing for days at a time.
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M Ray Bin
The king of chilled out guitar pop is back!!
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OOR
The Search For Everything is a more than fine pop album, but Mayer can do a lot better than this and just does not.
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Scad Radio
John Mayer’s The Search for Everything is a Vivid Emotional Journey. 4 out of 5 The Search for Everything albums
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MUTV
John Mayer fans get ready for the best year in music
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New Yorker
Yet “The Search for Everything” is also Mayer at his most human.
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The A Blast
So far, the album has received generally good reviews due to the fact that it is more like his old popular albums.
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The Western Hemisphere
The album scores four stars on the Mandell scale. While it is right and clean, its tracks can be slightly bland.
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Cavalier Daily
Stop the ‘Search’ — John Mayer’s new album is everything
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The Odyssey Online
Overall, I’m a fan of the album.
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Daily Journal
If you miss the old, soulful Mayer but still appreciated his later folk sounds, you can't miss out on this album.
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Corvallis Review
John Mayer bares his soul on his newest album release "The Search For Everything."
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Salute Magazine
While he’s searching for everything, Mayer writes within the confines the confines of classic pop—hooks featuring girls, cars, growing up—and shows that there is very little he can’t do.
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Salt lake Tribune
John Mayer solid, but not sizzling on latest album
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Technician Online
While not without its blemishes, “The Search for Everything Wave One” is a strong release that should keep fans yearning for the next release.
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The Ed Blog
I’m going to give John Mayer’s The Search for Everything a 70%. Hey, it’s worth a spin, if for Mayer’s Clapton-esque guitar work alone.
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Sonically Awkward
John Mayer delivers some of his most beautifully gut-wrenching songs to date.
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La Vista
John Mayer EP “The Search for Everything” impresses listeners with the combination of catchy music and meaningful lyrics
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Earthlings Blog
It is still John exploring everything he’s done before, resulting in a pleasant yet unsatisfyingly incoherent record – like he’s doing a recital.
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Bens Beat
There’s not much new here, but the veteran artist knows which buttons to press.
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Western Journal
While the album is not the worst, it’s not the best.
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The Bitter Lemon
It’s no “Battle Studies”, but I definitely feel like we got a lot of hype for this one that was perhaps unwarranted.
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Australian Guitar Review
Ok, if you can get past the album art on this one it is a solid album.
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Nieuweplaat
John Mayer does not reinvent the wheel with this plate, but is just passing through the APK.
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I Am The Industry
This is the smoothest sound of Mayer’s career so far, and it fits very well.
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Telegram
It’s good enough and there are no plum awful tracks.
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Palladium
John Mayer’s latest album has a very familiar sound – and it’s both a good thing and a bad thing
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Olivia Management
It’s impossible for John Mayer to disappoint, or maybe that’s just my biased opinion.
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Badger Herald
Singer/songwriter does not stray from what he knows, perhaps not a bad thing.
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Dorkaholics
Even though it’s pretty difficult and quite impressive to churn out quality work so often and so quickly, if anyone can do it, it’s gotta be our man, Mayer.
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The Oracle
It not only brings a wide array of music to the table, but it also takes your mind away from trivial things.
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Junkee
The Search For Everything is easy and smooth, but impressionless.
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Daily Vault
And just like that, John Mayer has matured into an Adult Contemporary artist.
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Down The Front Media
It seems Mayer wants to be seen more as a writer than a guitarist here and for me, it's a job well done!
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kenya Millan
in the end we continue to meet, again and again along the tree-lined path, with the same heartbroken John Mayer as always .
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Others
Certainly not an album of chart-toppers to my ears, but more than enjoyable for a good open-road trip interstate.
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Fret Monkey Records
John, it's been a long and rough journey, but it is absolutely no secret that you have, indeed, found yourself inside The Search for Everything.
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Insider
Go out and listen to “The Search for Everything” and find everything you never knew you needed.
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Much
The Search for Everything suggests that the best way to get fans to actually listen is to break it all up, and leave listeners wanting more.
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