Continuum - John Mayer or John Mayer Trio?

Just bought John Mayer's new album, "Continuum". Hoped that it would offer a blast of songs that would, theoretically, challenge us emotionally. "Room for Squares" and "Heavier Things" forced the listeners to think hard about love and life. John's songs was a mix of bublegum pop melody with mature lyrics.

Back to continuum, first impression, too many John Mayer Trio and not enough John Mayer. It's a blues album fer cryin out loud! Where's the old bubblegum pop that I've come to love? You may say that my music preference is so dull. But am I so wrong to have hoped that John stays his course on Continuum? He unleashed his craving for blues on "Try!", the John Mayer Trio album (which, ironically, I find more entertaining than Continuum). I assumed that he would go back to his old genre on this album. I was dissapointed on that aspect.

But wait, this IS still a John Mayer album, right? What defines the old John Mayer other than the bublegum pop melody was the older than his body themes encaptured in the lyrics. At least his lyric writing skills are still intact, even better. He sums up an entire generation's conscience on "Waiting on the World to Change", just pay attention to "it's not that we don't care, we just no that the fight ain't fair". In "Belief" he sings "we're never gonna win the world, we're never gonna stop the war, we're never gonna beat this if belief is what we're fighting for" summing up the whole war in the name of religion. Well, at least he still manages to come up with deeper lyrics.

**Update**
After a year or so of listening back and forth to Continuum, I must confess that I was wrong as hell. This album has been on the top of my playlist. Sorry about that, John.