Beach Boys To Release Long-Lost 1977 Album 'Adult/Child' In New Box Set

The Beach Boys will release their shelved 1977 album, Adult/Child, on February 13th as part of the six-disc box set, We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years. The collection features 73 tracks, with 35 previously unreleased songs. Adult/Child was created during Brian Wilson's brief return to active recording between 1976 and 1977, alongside The Beach Boys Love You, with a remastered version of that album also included in the set. Wilson collaborated with orchestral arranger Dick Reynolds on the eclectic project, which includes fitness jingles, big-band numbers, and personal songs like "Still I Dream of It" and "It's Over Now." The album was shelved after Love You's commercial failure, leading the band to work on 1978's M.I.U. Album instead. The box set - which also includes outtakes from 15 Big Ones, the group's biggest album of the 70s - was co-produced by James S ez and Beach Boys historian Howie Edelson, and includes a 40-page booklet with new interviews.