The universe gave me a present today — I discovered that Zooey Deschanel’s group, She & Him, has a Brian Wilson tribute album, and the choices of tracks are largely deep cuts that I also would have chosen. It’s absolutely perfect and beautiful.
The best part, perhaps, is that this album probably opens up the rest of She & Him’s music to me, much in the way that the TMBG kids albums made it possible for me to connect to them and Taylor Swift’s pandemic releases opened up all her earlier albums to me.
This is exciting!
I’m still struggling with the downbeat sadness of She & Him… but maybe if I give it another try on a different day I can manage to push past that and acclimate my brain to the sound more.