lovelorn

“Ghost” is for the lovelorn ceramics obsessives; “Soul” for the jazz lovers; “Beetlejuice” for the freaks.

The first captivates via a young man’s earnest effusiveness; the second’s effusiveness, tainted by lovelorn glum, deepens.

Then she sang the lovelorn “Coffee” like someone confessing her greatest fear.

The result is a lovelorn duet that is punctuated by the swooning harmonies of Anthony and Aguilar.

Wilson was ramping up to the sonic inventions of “Pet Sounds,” but this era-transitional single captured the old lovelorn magic and dreaminess in an increasingly robust arrangement.