[5] As Jack talked about in a "Billboard" Podcast, he didn't know that he was starting the creation of an album with this song.

The song was written just after he won the election and clearly states how Trump is building walls, and putting borders around our beautiful world.

The song features powerful lyrics such as "Well some of us need to gather, and others gonna have to kill.

The song mainly talks about everyone focused on the United States presidential election of 2016, and how the people should gather together and stand up against making borders.

[7] Also, Johnson had just recently worked on the short documentary, "Smog of the Sea", and released his song "Fragments".

[9] On these camping and boat trips, Johnson brought his backpack with a ukulele in it and with an acoustic guitar.

On the "Outside Online" podcast, Johnson also explained that he has a rule that he has to have a song to express his love with his wife Kim on every album.

The song features a more pop and melodic groove, while Johnson decided to add in several instrumental percussion noises.

[17] Robbie Lackritz was in the studio during the recording and added that few edits were made to the songs, and that they were mostly pure.

According to Johnson, he bought the piano for $99 at a Salvation Army as a Valentine's Day present for his then girlfriend Kim.

Johnson first recorded the songs Voice Memo app on his iPhone 7, and originally performed with all of the instruments played by him.

[24] Before Johnson would choose which songs to put on the album, he decided to play them to some of hs friends including Robbie Lackritz.

[26] The only two songs on the album to feature an electric guitar was "Subplots" & "You Can't Control it.

"[27] The album was originally planned to be released in June 2017 along with the start of his tour, but was delayed when his friend Kelly Slater called Johnson to go surfing in the Marshall Islands.

[30] In Australia, anyone who pre-orders a CD copy of the album automatically gets an entry to win a signed Epiphone Pro-1 Ultra Acoustic/ Electric Guitar.

[33] Johnson says that he does not care if his album didn't make it to number 1 on the Billboard 200, but would be happy if it did.

[34] In February 2017, Johnson released a new song "Fragments" to accompany the Smog of the Sea film.

[42] The third single of the album, "You Can't Control It" was released on August 25, 2017 with a music video to accompany it.

[43] A limited edition 10" vinyl EP for "You Can't Control It" was released by Republic Records in Peru to help support Johnson's show at the Jockey Club del Perú, and in select stores in the US.

[44] The EP contains a live track of "My Mind Is for Sale", "I Wrote Mr. Tambourine Man", "Sunsets for Somebody Else", "Mudfootball", and "You Can't Control It".

[45] "Big Sur" was released as the fourth single from the album on September 18, 2017 and feature a remix of the song by Mike D from the Beastie Boys.

[54] Johnson's shows at the Santa Barbara Bowl were plastic free days, in which everyone who attended received a re-usable Jack Johnson metal cup, and this helped promote Brushfire's film Smog of the Sea.

[55] Johnson also booked his first show in New Zealand in five years for the tour to promote the album.

[60] The products included an exclusive Aloha Kealopiko hand printed surfing shirt.

[66] The Cavalier Daily ranked All the Light Above It Too the fourth-most anticipated album coming out this fall.

They explained that Johnson's new album is anticipated to have a mixture between his slower and newer style, plus some of his faster more upbeat older songs.