She & Him share cover of The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice"

01 June 2022, 12:01 | Written by Cerys Kenneally

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She & Him have shared their own take on The Beach Boys' "Wouldn't It Be Nice" as the second outing from their Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson album.

After announcing Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson last month with a cover of "Darlin'", She & Him have unveiled a second song from their first album in six years, which is their take on The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds classic "Wouldn't It Be Nice".

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 last month, "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!"

"Wouldn't It Be Nice" is out now. She & Him's Melt Away: A Tribute to Brian Wilson album will arrive via Fantasy Records on 22 July, and is available to pre-order now.