As promised, the new single from John Mayer’s upcoming eighth studio album, Sob Rock, is ’80s enough to make Bryan Adams take that first real six-string back to the five-and-dime. Featuring Maren Morris, “Last Train Home†arrives with an equally ’80s music video, starring a bemused lady photographer, a pink electric guitar, and, of course, leather jackets galore.
If “Last Train Home†sounds an awful lot like Toto’s “Rosanna†(or Toto’s “Stop Loving You†or Toto’s “I’ll Be Over Youâ€), well, there’s a very good reason for that. In addition to Morris, Mayer is joined on the track by Toto percussionist Lenny Castro, and keyboardist Greg Phillinganes, who played for Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, and Michael Jackson, before later touring with (you guessed it) Toto from 2003 to 2008.
On Thursday evening, Mayer also released the full track list for Sob Rock, which is set to drop on July 16, and from the looks of it, it’s definitely going to make the summer seem to last forever, hopefully in a good way:
Last Train Home
Shouldn’t Matter but It Does
New Light
Why You No Love Me
Wild Blue
Shot in the Dark
I Guess I Just Feel Like
Til the Right One Comes
Carry Me Away
All I Want Is to Be With You