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For May 1966’s expansive Pet Sounds, Wilson and lyricist Tony Asher created a song cycle documenting a passage from youthful innocence to mournful adulthood that the composer contrasted with delicately sophisticated yet openhearted orchestrations.
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Barry Walters, Billboard, 11 June 2025
With Wilson on stage, seated at a piano, and Parks in the audience, the crowd roared thunderously as a song cycle that had become nearly mythical in its absence was finally unveiled.
—Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Released this spring as Seabird’s third album, Trash Mountain is an exquisitely bittersweet alt-country song cycle about love, loss, and friendship.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025
Five years ago, when the world was thrust into the devastation of the pandemic, the composer Michael Hersch embarked on what would become a twenty-nine-piece song cycle.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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Barry Walters, Billboard, 11 June 2025
With Wilson on stage, seated at a piano, and Parks in the audience, the crowd roared thunderously as a song cycle that had become nearly mythical in its absence was finally unveiled.
—Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2025
Released this spring as Seabird’s third album, Trash Mountain is an exquisitely bittersweet alt-country song cycle about love, loss, and friendship.
—Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2025
Five years ago, when the world was thrust into the devastation of the pandemic, the composer Michael Hersch embarked on what would become a twenty-nine-piece song cycle.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2025
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“Song cycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song%20cycle. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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