Album Rating: 3.5
This was a pleasant suprise. Really dug this
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Album Rating: 3.5
Same. Wow...not bad. Kicking myself for sleeping on this.
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Album Rating: 3.2
shame about Joe Thomas' production, the autotune and Bruce/Carl's songs being cut
this does have legitimately great moments though
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Album Rating: 3.0
“From There to Back Again” would be a borderline Beach Boys classic without the horrific auto tune on Al Jardine’s voice
Especially because one listen to a present-day Jardine live performance will tell you he is the one member of the band who wouldn’t have needed it
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Album Rating: 3.5
@Rowan are there Bruce/Carl songs still floating about somewhere? I'm getting to that completionist stage where I gotta know lol
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Album Rating: 3.5
Pretty sure Bruce and Mike were the ones who were using autotune. Not hearing any autotune on that song at all
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Album Rating: 3.5
@Rowan same here man. If those songs are available I'd be all over them
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Album Rating: 3.0
They re-recorded “She Believes in Love Again” from the ‘85 album (Bruce’s song) as well as the song “Don’t Fight the Sea” I believe (which features Carl prominently), the original version of which surfaced on Jardine’s solo album
Also the song “Spring Vacation” was originally called “Lay Down Burden” and dates back to the late 90s, when Brian and Carl were going to record it as a duet for Brian's Imagination album. Carl died before he could record the vocals however, so the song was shelved and a new song called “Lay Down Burden” was written for the album as a tribute to Carl
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Album Rating: 3.0
Also the autotuning on Al’s voice is extremely apparent in the first few lines, his voice has an electronic tint to it that just throws the vibe off
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Album Rating: 3.0
One last anecdote: according to legend, the line “I’m thinking maybe I’ll just stay” from “Summer’s Gone” was something Brian told Carl during their last conversation a couple of weeks before Carl’s death, after Carl told Brian he expected he wasn’t going to be around much longer
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Album Rating: 3.2
there was a Carl song called Waves of Love mentioned by one of them - Mike maybe - when they swore we would hear Carl vocals on this album. but alas not
no recordings of that or the Bruce song exist that I know of, I'm sure they'll turn up at some point
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Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off
The final 3 tracks really get all up in my feels with the callbacks to the Smile suites. An album of stuff like that would've been killer, but as a final record with BW, this was much better than it should've been. Too bad Mike Love is still the biggest cocksucker in music history 
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pretty good, not bad. glad to see them drop at least one decent album, since their last 2 studio albums were COMPLETE DOGSHITE.
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Album Rating: 3.2
been like two years since that convo up there but Al Jardine just dropped a single that I'm 99% sure is the Carl song that was meant to be on this album, Waves of Love 2.0. either that or he had two songs with Carl called Waves of Love and it's an incredible coincidence
either way... really nice tune, Al's still got it
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Album Rating: 3.5
honestly a pretty solid album for them to go out on
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Album Rating: 3.5
the last 3 songs are legitimately great
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Album Rating: 3.0
cool that they made this, much as the production is awful. good on them for wrapping things up on not summer in paradise
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I haven't listened to any of this since it came out. I remember the autotune being gratuitous in places but at least there weren't any record scratch effects or Bryan Adams knock-offs
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Album Rating: 3.0
this was my first jam of it. i only just got majorly majorly into them like a week ago
last three songs are really good ill keep them around for playlist purposes
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