"Marilyn Wonderful. You are now 81 and I am 87, but we still look the same to each other. I love you more each day, Marilyn. You didn't know me when I was 'Brian the Neurotic,' but there was another way for me to obtain it. Through music, my world of music. Honey, I was out of it. No one needed music like I did. Hours at the piano. I was a starving child. Through an act of God, a blessing in its most beautiful way, I was saved from a life of misery. You are the last of the real persons. Yours 'til God wants us apart, Brian." - Letter to Marilyn Rovell from Brian Wilson, 1964
"Now that I have lost my Diane, there's no plan as to where to go" - from The Beach Boys' My Diane, a Brian Wilson composition, 1978
- Instrumentation -
• MPC 1000
• Roland TR-808
• NI Absynth 4
• Technics SL-1200MK2
*Spring aka American Spring was a group whose members were Marilyn Wilson (Brian Wilson's then-wife) and Diane Rovell (Marilyn's sister). Their only LP was produced by Brian Wilson, Stephen W. Desper and David Sandler.
This is undoubtedly my single favorite album of all time. It feels like such a perfect culmination of all the themes and ideas Fleet Foxes has been working with since 2008. It answers many of the questions found on both Helplessness Blues and Crack-Up, and represents an incredible maturation and growth in Robin Pecknold's perspective. Their other albums are certainly masterpieces, but this, in my opinion, is their magnum opus. I doubt it will be recognized as such in its time. isaiah_stuart