One of the finest observations I've ever read about Brian Wilson is contained in a review of Love and Mercy, written bv Los Angeles magazine's Steve Erickson. Two sentences in particular. One in which Erickson describes Wilson's post-Pet Sounds, Smile-era comedown in which "the celestial sounds in his head turned on him, and became the screams of angels falling from heaven." The second alludes to Wilson's music-creating process: "Great artists create in circles, not lines, in the ever-bending curl of the wave rather than in its rush to the shore’s conclusion." Great writing!
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