ReviewsIncluded in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "How can music this expansive, ambitious and affecting have slipped through the cracks?", 4 stars out of 5 -- "PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE is a cinematic meditation on loss, both personal and environmental. A trio of wrenchingly intimate songs about a failed relationship anchor the album...", "A Piano-Driven Epic of Doomed Romanticism....With Raw-Throated, Harmonically Rich Ballads...", 4 stars out of 5 -- "A moody, groovy and deeply congenial album. Dennis had his brother Brian's gift for melody...", 3 stars out of 5 -- "The music amounts to a compelling period piece....Listen hard, and you can hear the sound of life lived so near the existential edge that it beggars belief.", "Wilson's solo project now bears flattering resemblance to other cherished winter of discontent discs from the mid-70s, of the order of Big Star's THIRD or Shuggie Otis's INSPIRATION INFORMATION.", "Full of lush harmonies, grandiose orchestrations and poignant lyrics, these songs have lost none of their innocent melancholy over the last three decades."
Additional InformationThe two-disc reissue contains not only outtakes from this album's sesssions, but the entirety of Wilson's never released second solo album, written and recorded in 1978 and '79.