Watch Jack Johnson Rock Three Stripped-Down Tunes

This week Jack Johnson scored his third consecutive Number One album with To the Sea, an “existential chill-out record that feels substantial, at times even edgy, without feeling forced,” as Will Hermes writes in his RS review of the disc. As Johnson told Rolling Stone , picking up an electric guitar wasn’t too much of a stretch: “In high school, I played in a band that covered Minor Threat, the Descendents, a little bit of Bad Religion.” The new LP also features Mellotrons, crickets and a gecko, who makes a cameo on “Anything But the Truth.”

The 35-year-old surfer and songwriter recently returned to his beloved acoustic guitar to lay down a few tracks at New York’s Sirius XM studios. Click above to watch his performance of To the Sea‘s “From the Clouds,” and check out two older tunes — In Between Dreams‘ “Banana Pancakes,” and Animal Liberation Orchestra’s “Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down” from Fly Between Falls here: