She & Him release own rendition of The Beach Boys' "Don't Worry Baby"

"Don't Worry Baby" featured on The Beach Boys' 1964 album Shut Down Volume 2, and will appear on She & Him's Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson album with their versions of "'Til I Die", "Wouldn't It Be Nice" and "Darlin'".

She & Him, aka Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, said of the latest cover, ""Don't Worry Baby" is one of the greatest songs of all time. As with all the other songs on our tribute record, we had no interest in copycatting the original production - our version began with stripping the song down to just vocals and a drop-tuned acoustic guitar and building from there. The inspiration for our version comes from a lot of different places but the biggest ones would be some of Chet Atkins guitar ideas, some drum ideas from Mick Fleetwood, and some synth inventions by Dave Smith (RIP)."

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 said of the tribute album in May, "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 added, "Zooey and Matt did such mind-blowing versions of our songs. The harmonies are beautiful and right on. I love this record!"