Release Date: 08 September 2023
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Capitol Records
£299.99
The Beach Boys The Smile Sessions Limited 180gram 2LP/2x7" /5CD Box Set
Overview:
Never Before Released Original 1966-’67 Album Sessions
Between the summer of 1966 and early 1967, The Beach Boys recorded a bounty of songs and drafts for an album, SMiLE, that was intended to follow the band’s 1966 masterpiece, Pet Sounds. The sessions were ultimately shelved, and The Beach Boys’ SMiLE has never been released. With the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has collected and compiled the definitive collection, ‘The SMiLE Sessions’.
The SMiLE Sessions presents an in-depth overview of the recording sessions for the album, which achieved legendary, mythical status for music fans around the world.
All of The SMiLE Sessions’ physical and digital configurations will include an assembled album of core tracks, while the box set delves much deeper into the sessions, adding early song drafts, alternate takes, instrumental and vocals-only mixes, and studio chatter.
Artwork for all of the SMiLE Sessions has been created with and inspired by Beat-Pop artist Frank Holmes’ original 1967 art and booklet designs intended for the SMiLE album. With its three-dimensional shadowbox lid, The SMiLE Sessions box set offers a whimsical peek inside the storied ‘SMiLE Shop.’
Box Set Content
• 5 CDs / 2LPs / 2 7” singles
• Three-dimensional shadow box lid featuring the original artwork of Frank Holmes.
• 60 page case bound book features liner notes, timeline, sessionography, lyrics, Frank Holmes drawings, Producer’s Notes & more than 60 previously unreleased photos
• Box also contains:
6 panel folder holding 5 CDs and singles. Features photos of original session tape boxes.
7” vinyl singles
“Heroes and Villians” in sleeve art
“Vega-Tables” in sleeve art
Gatefold 2 LPs
Features full tracklisting of proposed unfinished album +
Stereo mixes and session highlights (not available on CDs)
12” x 12” booklet created for original release features:
Photos by Guy Webster
Frank Holmes drawings
24” x 36” poster of Frank Holmes cover art
Release Date: 02 December 2022
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£37.99
Release Date: 02 December 2022
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: UMC / Virgin EMI
£144.99
Release Date: 17 June 2022
Format: LP Double Vinyl
Label: UMC
£32.99
Release Date: 17 June 2022
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: UMC
£134.99
