"Acid Alliteration" is how Mike Love once described the lyrics of "SMILE" the world's greatest teenage symphony for God. I would describe The New Beach Boys disc as "Acid (reflux) alliteration". Those who check this page know that I dissed the beach boys reunion...the grammies were awkward...the QVC special seemed like a hostage situation. I had planned on skipping the new album til i heard it was being produced by Joe Thomas (no...not the Browns all-pro tackle). He did a great job on Brian Wilson's "Imagination" pro tooling Brian's still melodic scraps into harmonious tuneage.
The new album is actually very good for what it is...Beach Boy albums (except Smile) are mostly terrible lyrically. The melodies make even those sub-par offerings memorable. I still enjoy driving around hearing an unexpected great tune on the radio and i'm sure you do too. "That's why good made the Radio" indeed.