![]() Ward: All through COVID, everyone making records at that time had to figure out, How are we going to do this in separate studios? So Brian was in his studio, and we were in ours.ĭeschanel: It’s funny - our plan was always for it to be a tribute to Brian. ” How did that collaboration happen?ĭeschanel: We weren’t even in the room with him. Wilson actually does the vocals on one of these tracks, “ Do It Again. There are so many people who are huge fans, but it was fun to get into the more obscure songs that we knew, like, This is inherently a hit, but people might not know it. ![]() I knew that there was a lot to Brian Wilson that is underexplored. I remember when I was 19 or 20 discovering the record Surf’s Up, and I was so taken by its uniqueness and how it was a departure from the Beach Boys. I remember seeing him play for the first time in probably ’04 or ’05, going every night and being blown away. Not really, but I would go to see him play every chance I could get. How did that working relationship start?ĭeschanel: Just generally stalking him, mostly. And She & Him collaborated with him on the song “On the Island” on his 2015 album, No Pier Pressure. Zooey, you had an Artists on Artists interview with him way back in the day. Matt, you covered a Pet Sounds song on your 2005 album Transistor Radio. There’s so much of his catalogue to be inspired by. This album easily could have been two or three volumes. And that eventually got whittled down to what made it to the record. Ward: We each picked about a dozen of our favorite Brian Wilson songs that we thought we could try reimagining. This album has a mix of some very well-known Wilson songs and more obscure cuts. It’s probably the longest–ĭeschanel: … Because we normally record very quickly. But we’d never recorded a record remotely like this one we were sending stuff back and forth, and it was a fun and interesting process. Being from Southern California, I think it’s part of the landscape. These were songs we both know very well and love very much, and something we’ve always connected on was loving Brian Wilson. It was very much a project we started working on as a shutdown project. Zooey Deschanel: We started deep into the pandemic. Hi! Thank you both for taking the time to talk with us about this project. ![]() It’s not without precedent: The duo has covered “ Wouldn’t It Be Nice” in concert for years, and they teamed up with the 79-year-old legend on his 2015 track “ On the Island.” Along with the album announcement comes the music video for its first single, “Darlin’.” We spoke to Deschanel and Ward about Beach Boys harmonies, recording during COVID, and this album’s “army of Zooeys.” Today, they announced Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson, a dreamy 14-track album of covers, including a track featuring Wilson himself. Then, for the better part of a decade, the duo turned their throwback knack to compilations, with two Christmas albums (which featured Brian Wilson songs) and one paying grand orchestral tribute to the likes of Burt Bacharach and Carole King. Ward’s indie-pop duo always trafficked in deep-stacked winsome harmonies (hers) and a gentle beach-inflected guitar (his) their three albums of original music all conjured a golden, worn-in AM radio spinning 1960s oldies that never actually existed. The words She & Him and Brian Wilson and tribute album just make some kind of inevitable sense, like a Pinterest board zapped by a twee-ray into sentient life.
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