There's been a Beach Boys' official reunion and a new album That's Why God Made the Radio. The Beach Boys had become living jukebox of hits endlessly recycled as an oldies act, whilst Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys hadn't made a record together in 16 years. They did, however agree to release the original Smile Sessions in 2011.

One of the tracks That's Why God Made the Radio is a ballad written by Brian Wilson and sung by For Al Jardine entitled From There to Back Again:

The final three tracks – From There to Back Again, Pacific Coast Highway and Summer's Gone – form a kind of suite written by Brian Wilson. It is melancholic rather than nostalgic as in Pacific Coast Highway which refers to the late Dennis Wilson's "Pacific Ocean Blue" and the final song Summer's Gone, which marries beach imagery with resignation:

The album appears to be part fun-in-the-sun agenda and part Requiem for a Beach Boy. Even at its most remorselessly upbeat schmaltz the Beach Boys' music was marked by an ineffable sadness---or even a sad, stark splendor.