Capitol Records have announced that they will be releasing the Beach Boys’ lost, incomplete album Smile later this year. Smile was originally planned as the follow-up to the band’s 1966 classic Pet Sounds, but the material was mostly abandoned due to creative mastermind Brian Wilson’s fragile mental health at the time.
Though no release date has been set, the official release of Smile will be sold as a two-CD set and as a deluxe box set including four CDs, two vinyl LPs, two vinyl singles and a 60-page hardbound book penned by Beach Boys historian Dominic Priore. The final track listing has not been announced, but disc one of the CD set and the first three sides of the vinyl edition will contain a close approximation of the Smile album, with the remainder collecting outtakes and alternate versions from the sessions.
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