
She & Him announce first album in six years with cover of The Beach Boys' "Darlin'"
She & Him have announced their first album in six years Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson, and have released their rendition of The Beach Boys' "Darlin'" to accompany the news.
She & Him, the collaborative project of Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, have delivered their first outing of 2022, which is a cover of The Beach Boys' 1967 Wild Honey song "Darlin'".
The new cover, which lands with a Lara Jean Gallagher-directed video, is lifted from She & Him's Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson album, and follows last year's previously unreleased cover of Madonna’s "Holiday" that featured on the 10th anniversary edition of their A Very She & Him Christmas.
Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson will be She & Him's first album in six years, following 2016's Christmas Party, and will even feature an appearance from Wilson himself on "Do It Again".
The duo say of the tribute album, "In the spring of 2020, we started a list of our favorite Brian songs — a very long list. We chose songs without any regard to their chart performance. The obscure ones hit us just as hard as the more popular songs — and all are ripe for re-imagining, re-interpreting, and re-inventing. Brian writes songs of beauty and loneliness and vulnerability better than anyone — and by sequencing them next to popular songs of confidence and love and fun, it creates a more complete picture of life on earth."
Brian Wilson adds, "Zooey and Matt did such mind-blowing versions of our songs. The harmonies are beautiful and right on. I love this record!"
Tracklist:
- Darlin’
- Wouldn’t It Be Nice
- Til I Die
- Deirdre
- Melt Away
- Good To My Baby
- Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
- Don’t Worry Baby
- This Whole World
- Kiss Me, Baby
- Do It Again (Feat. Brian Wilson)
- Heads You Win, Tails I Lose
- Please Let Me Wonder
- Meant For You
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