Smile (Brian Wilson album)
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| Studio album by Brian Wilson | ||||
| Released | September 28, 2004 | |||
| Recorded | April–July 2004 | |||
| Studio | Sunset Sound Recorders and Your Place or Mine Recording, California | |||
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| Length | 46:59 | |||
| Label | Nonesuch | |||
| Producer | Brian Wilson | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 97/100 |
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| AllMusic |   |
| Entertainment Weekly | A |
| The Guardian |  |
| NME | 9/10 |
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| Pitchfork Media | 9.0/10 |
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| The Village Voice | A+ |
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| Directed by | John Anderson |
| Produced by | Dave Goetz, Casey K. Sipes |
| Music by | Brian Wilson |
| Edited by | John Anderson |
| Distributed by | Rhino |
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| Language | English |
Brian Wilson Presents Smile (also referred to as Smile or the abbreviation BWPS) is the sixth studio album by Brian Wilson, released in September 2004. It began as a series of concert performances which were later adapted for a 2005 direct-to-video concert film of the same name. The album received great acclaim and earned Wilson his first Grammy Award, later being featured in several "greatest albums" lists.
The project was originally conceived in 1966 as Smile, a concept album recorded by the Beach Boys written in collaboration between Wilson and lyricist Van Dyke Parks. It was intended to succeed the group's 11th studio album Pet Sounds and was based on the engineering methods of their single "Good Vibrations". Many years after the project was shelved due to personal and technical difficulties with recording, Wilson chose to revisit the material with Parks as a specially arranged live concert performance. Motivated by the unexpected positive reception, a studio-recorded version was then released by Wilson as a solo album.
Recorded from scratch, Brian Wilson Presents Smile eschews the Beach Boys' Smile sessions by containing all-new instrumental and vocal performances. Recordings from the original Beach Boys' sessions were later released as The Smile Sessions in 2011. It featured a reconstruction of the Beach Boys' Smile album that loosely followed the track listing template never before established until the release of Brian Wilson Presents Smile.
The Smile album as it was to be recorded by the Beach Boys was worked on for a year before being shelved indefinitely. The original failure to complete Smile has been attributed to several factors: internal resistance towards the project, legal battles with Capitol Records, technical difficulties with recording, Carl Wilson's draft battle, and Brian Wilson's escalating drug use, mental health issues, and creative dissatisfaction with the project.
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