Music from Love and Mercy is the soundtrack album to Bill Pohlad's film of the same name about the Beach Boys' songwriter-musician-producer and co-founder Brian Wilson.

The resultant score was composed substantially from mashed up samples of Beach Boys songs, taking inspiration from the Beatles' "Revolution 9" (1968) and Danger Mouse's The Grey Album (2004).

Of Brian Wilson's music being incorporated in Love & Mercy, director Bill Pohlad initially clarified: "We're not thinking about this as the hit parade—that would be the biopic thing.

[5] Ross, who is selective about the films he works on, says he agreed to Love & Mercy because "I liked him [Pohlad] from the moment of meeting him.

"[2] Pohlad confessed that while growing up, he was "kind of more of a Beatles guy", and only became interested in the Beach Boys much later in life.

[6] Pohlad explained: "Brian hears these amazing orchestrations and harmonies and arrangements in his head that are so complex, nobody else can understand them until he actually executes them.

This was achieved by writing original pieces wherein samples of Wilson's voice and Beach Boys instrumentation could then be digitally retuned to create new melodies.

"[9] On a section that features voices from "God Only Knows", Ross retrieved a scrapped melody from an earlier version of the song that went unused on the final mix.

[15] HitFix wrote that within the film, the score is "both supportive and spare, never once overwhelming the movie or trying to ladle on cheap unearned sentiment.