John Mayer is an American singer-songwriter and Grammy-winning guitarist. Released on July 16, 2021, Sob Rock is John Mayer’s eighth studio album and a full-throttle dive into the “security-blanket” sound of 1980s soft rock. Mayer has described the record as a “shitpost”—a deliberate attempt to break his own musical mold by leaning into a hyper-nostalgic, almost ironic aesthetic that he feels “implants false memories” in the listener.
