Brian Wilson: No Pier Pressure - review

Δημοσιεύθηκε: 3 Απριλίου 2015 - 20:15

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Brian Wilson

No Pier Pressure

(Virgin EMI)

While heartening to see the creative flame still burning in Brian Wilson, it unfortunately doesn't burn too brightly in No Pier Pressure.

The ex-Beach Boy gets the worst mistake out the way early on with "Runaway Dancer", a misbegotten disco track on which Wilson jigs about as awkwardly as a fish out of water.

The rest of the album shifts into chintzy pop, a comfortable but flowery musical setting in which he is joined by guest vocalists such as fellow Beach Boy Al Jardine and country-pop singer Kacey Musgraves: they dominate the songs they appear on, with Wilson (hoarse voice clinging tenaciously to the youthful lilt of old) in the background. Past glories are faintly glimpsed in the close harmony melodies woven into the saccharine music.

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