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GUARDIAN "Stylistically, the album takes a detour from Brian Wilson's Sixties sunshine-soaked symphonies. Adding a plaintive beauty and combining it with coke-ravaged, mid-Seventies, Spector-ish AOR and some playful studio trickery, the album is a raw, introspective and melancholic delight."

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LEGACY RECORDINGS
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DENNIS WILSON
Pacific Ocean Blue:Legacy Edition
Caribou/Legacy

"With all the recent, ironic fanfare around yacht/soft/cheese rock from the halcyon daysof Sunny California now coming to a crest, again,the timing of the re-release of former Beach Boy Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue couldn’t be better.This album employs many of the elements of the aforementioned ‘70s and ‘80s era, but crushes up the irony and snorts it. Pacific Ocean Blue hurts. Each song on the record is arollercoaster of emotions that paints a stark picture of the cocaine boogiemeets shattering crash of Dennis’ life on the skids. This is one of the quintessential L.A.albums, for its fireworks of fame and celebrity are stripped naked and left to wander. This record screams with the vulnerability of John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band, while also never straying from the melody that seemed to be as comforting for Wilson as it is for the listener. Discovering the original record is well worth the purchase, but hearing the second disc of tunes from the unreleased Bambu record makes this Legacy Edition a must-have. Not scratchy demos in the slightest, the Bambu recordings range from White Album booze-rockers to extended-groove spaceman instrumentation."--Michael Suter

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UNCUT "For the most part, the “Bambu” songs, recorded through 1977 and ’78, are woozy expansions on Dennis Wilson’s long-time aesthetic – a sort of gruff etherealism, with songs staggering away from easy resolutions, privileging atmospherics over simple hooks... a fractured, classical aura...A damaged grandeur dominates, with epic arrangements contrasting with the degraded nature of Wilson’s vocals. Always husky, at least compared with the saintly tones of his brothers, Wilson’s voice is enormously battered...The music is cloudy, meticulously scored yet somehow imprecise, a kind of amorphous rethink of late ‘70s AOR...a gently pulsating kind of prog MOR."

It's sad that it takes a Foo-Fighter tie-in to get some journalists off their asses to write about Dennis Wilson & the re-issue of "Pacific Ocean Blue." I guess this falls into the "no such thing as bad press" category.
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