USA - 1993
Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Slowcore
It’s hard to pick one album out of their small discography, since each one is a very special moment. And So Tonight That I Might See isn’t even my favourite Mazzy Star album, but this is for sure a mind-blowing record that took music forward.
Delving into even more psychedelic horizons, this second album is even more abstract than their first, getting even closer to what « feeling » means. At times eerie (Mary of Silence, Unreflected, So Tonight That I Might See), light as a feather (Five Strings Serenade, Into Dust), full of rock (She’s My Baby, Bells Ring, Wasted) or dream pop (Blue Light, Fade Into You), their music shapeshifts all along, always on point. Fade Into You shined with such a strength that the song put the rest of the album in the shadow, but that would mean forgetting Roback’s fabulous guitar play on tracks like Watsed and Sandoval’s playful and witty songwriting on She’s My Baby. As a whole, this is the testimony of two minds containing multitudes and perfectly knowning how to amplify them with their respective talents.
Delving into even more psychedelic horizons, this second album is even more abstract than their first, getting even closer to what « feeling » means. At times eerie (Mary of Silence, Unreflected, So Tonight That I Might See), light as a feather (Five Strings Serenade, Into Dust), full of rock (She’s My Baby, Bells Ring, Wasted) or dream pop (Blue Light, Fade Into You), their music shapeshifts all along, always on point. Fade Into You shined with such a strength that the song put the rest of the album in the shadow, but that would mean forgetting Roback’s fabulous guitar play on tracks like Watsed and Sandoval’s playful and witty songwriting on She’s My Baby. As a whole, this is the testimony of two minds containing multitudes and perfectly knowning how to amplify them with their respective talents.
About Blue Light :
A boat, a window, someone else’s eyes, a colour. Four elements that are at the core of Hope Sandoval’s songwriting. Here she wrote a song inside of which you can dissolve, spreading your arms in beatitude while imagining everything she whispers to your ear. But the song is not one of their lightest, because it sounds like sorrow, like vivid emotions trying to find their place. This blue light might be a memory, or something she sees from across the street, what we’re sure is that it keeps a secret. And with melancholy, we drift along, hopeful and blue.
A boat, a window, someone else’s eyes, a colour. Four elements that are at the core of Hope Sandoval’s songwriting. Here she wrote a song inside of which you can dissolve, spreading your arms in beatitude while imagining everything she whispers to your ear. But the song is not one of their lightest, because it sounds like sorrow, like vivid emotions trying to find their place. This blue light might be a memory, or something she sees from across the street, what we’re sure is that it keeps a secret. And with melancholy, we drift along, hopeful and blue.