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| Slantmagazine |
 That Lucky Old Sun is Brian Wilson's tribute to his favorite place on Earth: Southern California. This literal and metaphorical geography is a mantra to which he always seems to return. And that's not exactly a bad thing. It gives a sense of place, even perspective (each state seems to carry its own historical and artistic connotations, as Sufjan Stevens has demonstrated). Wilson does not lie about where he comes from, nor does he feel compelled, like Dylan and Stevens, to continually remake himself or try on different mantles of style and influence....full text |
| Popmatters |
| When Brian Wilson released Smile in 2004, it was the culmination of many a Beach Boys fan’s lifelong wish. Not only did the album finally bring to fruition rock’s greatest lost (well, fractured and scattered) masterpiece, but it provided a new Wilson work that his loyal listeners could love without caveats. Sure, his 1988 self-titled solo debut was pretty good… compared to everything else Wilson had recorded since 1973, and even though the production was a bit stiff, and despite his crazy psychiatrist claiming songwriting credits. Its successor, 1998’s super-slick and synth-heavy Imagination, moved further in the wrong direction, and it seemed we would be condemned to a Brian Wilson career of diminishing returns....full text |
| Billboard |
| After taking care of some unfinished business in recent years, Brian Wilson shows he still has the stuff of conceptual brilliance on his eighth solo album. "That Lucky Old Sun" is the kind of song cycle that would make Kurt Weill proud, a set of disassociated but nevertheless thematically linked tunes, inspired by Wilson's Southern California roots. Using the title track, a 1949 composition that was a hit for Louis Armstrong, as a recurring motif, Wilson and his collaborators create richly arranged and orchestrated pop songs as well as four poetic spoken-word narratives that give the album a trippy, avant edge. ...full text |
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