Let's Go Away for Awhile

"Let's Go Away for Awhile" is an instrumental by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1966 album Pet Sounds.

He later called it his favorite instrumental that he ever wrote,[3] and commented that it was possibly influenced by Burt Bacharach's music.

Several months after the album's release, the track was issued as the B-side to the band's single "Good Vibrations".

[...] To the extent that the listener hears 'Let's Go Away for Awhile' as an incomplete piece, it is possible to understand it as a reflection of the alienation—the sense of not quite fitting in—of the bulk of Tony Asher's lyrics in the songs on Pet Sounds.

"[6] An early full working title was "Let's Go Away for Awhile (And Then We'll Have World Peace)"—the parenthetical being a reference to Del Close and John Brent's 1959 comedy album How to Speak Hip.

"[4] In 1966, Wilson considered the track to be "the finest piece of art" he had made up to that point, and that every component of its production "worked perfectly".

[9] A year later he expounded, I applied a certain set of dynamics through the arrangement and the mixing and got a full musical extension of what I'd planned during the earliest stages of the theme.