BRIAN WILSON: Smile ****1/2 (Nonesuch/Warner).

The convoluted story behind Smile is a musical sub-genre within itself. Brian Wilson's follow-up to The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds has finally arrived and incredibly lives up to 37 years of rumours and hype. Essentially it's three complex song suites, making sense of all those odd bootleg snippets. Confirms Wilson as pop's Mozart.

JEFF CRAWFORD