Rolling Stone has a segment titled "Spring Music Preview." Here is what it has to say.
The Beach Boys - Album title to be determined. Release - June
"It's a sentimental thing for me," Brian Wilson says of the Beach Boys' first all-new studio LP in decades. "We've been together 50 years-that's a long time." Since reuniting last year, the surviving members have recorded more than a dozen new tunes at L.A.'s Ocean Way studios - where they cut "Good Vibrations" and much of Pet Sounds in the sixties. Expect lots of big harmonies and familiar subjects on songs like the mellow rocker "Beaches in Mind" and the nostalgic ballad "That's Why God Made the Radio."
"Conceptually, the album is not going to be anything outlandish like Smiley Smile - it will be like the Beach Boys circa '65," adds Mike Love. "I'm trying to write lyrics that fit the music without making it sound like you're writing from a hospice."