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Brian Wilson’s final, unfinished recordings shared by collaborator Jonathan Wilson
“This album never got finished and these tracks will live on my drive in obscurity, but they’re really great,” Jonathan Wilson wrote.
The world suffered a great loss this week with the death of Brian Wilson, a one-of-a-kind genius who changed the course of music. There may be one more gift from Brian still to be received. As Stereogum noted, musician, songwriter and producer Jonathan Wilson (no relation) posted on his Instagram that he and regular collaborator Drew Erickson had worked on new music with Brian for an album that was also being made with onetime Beach Boys producer Joe Thomas. When Joe died in 2024, that was the end of that that record, and it was mostly unfinished. Wilson, who’s worked with Lana Del Rey, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen, Roger Waters and more, did say that two tracks were completed and shared just a little bit of them both on Instagram.
In the first of two instagram posts, Jonathan wrote, “This is unreleased solo Brian Wilson music that myself and Drew Erickson made here in Topanga with Brian, Joe Thomas, the Jardins, we made two amazing songs and Joe and Brian both were loving it, I was talking to Joe on the phone everyday as we were interpreting what they wanted (RIP JT) we were on top of the world having endless freedom overdubbing all of these instruments with Brian and the guys singing on top…. this album never got finished and these tracks will live on my drive in obscurity, but they’re really great, RIP to the king, BW.”
The other Instagram post has a song with a title, “September,” and Jonathan wrote, “Brian Wilson’s last recorded music I did here in Topanga with Drew Erickson, this was the second song we did ‘September’ it’s BW, Joe Thomas, The Jardines and myself.. This was all part of a BW solo album that I was meant to co-produce, and after Joe passed away, it all ended up vanishing, but these 2 tracks I’m very proud of working on, regardless of! RIP BW.”
The first song sounds very Pet Sounds-era inspired, while “September” is more melancholic. Listen to those clips below.
Read tributes to Brian Wilson from Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Carole King, and more, and read our tribute as well.
