The songwriting of Brian Wilson, co-founder and multi-tasking leader of the Beach Boys, is widely considered one of the most innovative and significant of the late 20th century, and his work is credited as a major innovation in the field of music production. Through his band, "[Brian] pretty much single-handedly raised the craft of pop songwriting from the awkwardly sub-lunar to the gracefully sublime," writes Jeff Miers of The Buffalo News, while Adam Webb of The Guardian wrote: "Brian proved pop music could be high art with limitless imagination."