Released in March 1965, The Beach Boys Today! marked the first time the group experimented with the “album-as-art” form. Music writer Scott Schinder referenced its ” suite-like structure ” as an early example of the rock album format being used to make a cohesive artistic statement. Brian also established his new lyrical approach toward the autobiographical; journalist Nick Kent wrote that the subjects of Brian’s songs “were suddenly no longer simple happy souls harmonizing their sun-kissed innocence and dying devotion to each other over a honey-coated backdrop of surf and sand”. In the book Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop , Bob Stanley remarked that “Brian was aiming for Johnny Mercer but coming up proto-indie .”
Released in March 1965, The Beach Boys Today! marked the first time
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