it definitely is
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 09:07 (ten years ago) link
In which 2013 became THE YEAR TO COME BACK.
"California" is stunning on first listen. Whatever it was, is intact.
― MatthewK, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 12:48 (ten years ago) link
haven't listened to this yet. Part of me is excited but another part feels that by Among My Swans the well had run dry. At this stage, I think the debut is still the only classic they made.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 12:56 (ten years ago) link
Very excited for this.
― Austin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
can anyone give me a list of their non-album tracks?
― OutdoorFish, Saturday, 20 July 2013 11:03 (ten years ago) link
other than common burn/lay myself down, these are the ones i have
under my cartell your honeyhad a thoughthair & skini'm gonna bake my biscuittell me now
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Saturday, 20 July 2013 11:33 (ten years ago) link
thanks! are they all available for download?
― OutdoorFish, Saturday, 20 July 2013 12:31 (ten years ago) link
Excited for the news! I never did check out the 2011 single. Really enjoyed the last Hope Sandoval album that came out, too lazy to look up, around 2011 as well? I would be shocked if this new album is terrible.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 20 July 2013 16:02 (ten years ago) link
There's a collection out there, not sure if it was an official release or an Internet compilation, called The Other Side: B-Sides, Live Cuts and Rarities that collects most essential non-album Mazzy Star tracks. Probably very easy to hunt down. Includes all the tracks electricsound listed above and some soundboard stuff and an acoustic "Ride It On." It's a good listen, more eclectic than their albums, but it gives the impression their vault isn't really all that deep.
― Evan R, Saturday, 20 July 2013 18:15 (ten years ago) link
I had long suspected that, evan! thanks for the info
― OutdoorFish, Saturday, 20 July 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41T1m0LUmnL.jpg
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 02:49 (ten years ago) link
i like it.
― Bee OK, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 02:51 (ten years ago) link
They're just trying to trick people who think they are buying So Tonight That I Might See
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 02:52 (ten years ago) link
Meowzy Star
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 July 2013 02:58 (ten years ago) link
I totally had that Halloween window decal as a kid. I love it!
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 03:20 (ten years ago) link
Think I will get this on vinyl
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 07:30 (ten years ago) link
Also seconding Elvis upthread, the Suki Ewers album is very nice, and probably easy to snag used for not much money.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Wednesday, 31 July 2013 14:24 (ten years ago) link
it's out there
as they say
― nostormo, Saturday, 14 September 2013 18:42 (ten years ago) link
y'all heard this before? not amazing, but interestinghttp://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/60765908104/going-home-feat-hope-sandoval-hey-mazzy-star
― tylerw, Saturday, 14 September 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
the record sounds very predictable.for better and worse.
― nostormo, Saturday, 14 September 2013 20:24 (ten years ago) link
Streaming...
http://www.npr.org/2013/09/15/221802890/first-listen-mazzy-star-seasons-of-your-day?sc=tw&cc=twmp
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 16 September 2013 03:38 (ten years ago) link
when's the last time britney did a ballad anyway?
― dyl, Monday, 16 September 2013 04:25 (ten years ago) link
oops wrong thread
hit me mazzy one more time
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 16 September 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
my loneliness is killing me *cue guitar lull*
― katherine, Monday, 16 September 2013 08:21 (ten years ago) link
looool i would actually love that
― dyl, Monday, 16 September 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link
I've wondered what Mazzy Star fans think of Susan Christie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFVcDS39H4Y
Seems like Mazzy Star could do a pretty nice cover of that track.
― Soundslike, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link
Voice, check. Instrumentation, check. Production, check. Lyric, OMFG.
― MatthewK, Tuesday, 17 September 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
Three songs in and yep — it's a Mazzy Star album!
(that's a good thing)
― Austin, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 13:43 (ten years ago) link
"the record sounds very predictable.for better and worse"
agreed. it's good, but it sounded exactly the way I' expect it to.....not sure I like it any more than the other three records, and less than Hope Sandoval's two albums. It's still good though.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 September 2013 14:00 (ten years ago) link
In which our own DL interviews them. To a degree.
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/sep/19/mazzy-star-seasons-of-your-day-interview?CMP=twt_gu
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Classic Roback quote, though:
"I was fairly different from the other kids, I didn't get on with them....We didn't have many common interests. My hobbies were psychiatry and history … I'd psychoanalyse my friends."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
haha, man, i would not want to interview those guys.
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
The bit from an early interviewer describing the experience as like 'drinking sand' is amazing. I'll have to remember that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:27 (ten years ago) link
lol yeah. new album sounds pretty nice to me
― tylerw, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
lol great piece DL
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:38 (ten years ago) link
I just love this line:
Unfortunately for them, people persisted in enjoying their music.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 19 September 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
indeed an otm impression. some of it is very nice as many other parts just kind of drift boringly. i'll probably just cherry-pick a few tracks to keep. "california" is one of my singles of the year for sure.
― dyl, Thursday, 19 September 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link
official release date today, it's up on spotify... listening right now.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 24 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Interviewing Mazzy Star is like throwing stones down a deep well and waiting for the faint splash. Every inquiry, however straightforward, is met with a pause that would have made Harold Pinter antsy.
lol
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Wednesday, 25 September 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
this is good, i'm enjoying it. does hope sing with more of a twang than on the older albums?
― marcos, Friday, 27 September 2013 15:39 (ten years ago) link
feel like she started out w/ more of a twang on the first album, and then ditched it. but yeah, it's kinda back in parts here.
― tylerw, Friday, 27 September 2013 15:41 (ten years ago) link
Like this a lot. Won't pretend to understand any carping about "more of the same" cause a) the same is awesome. It's called having a style. It's why I buy every Motorhead album, every Cannibal Corpse album, every Sade album with confidence.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 27 September 2013 23:45 (ten years ago) link
yeah, I don't really want a Mazzy Star record that's attempting to surprise or challenge me.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 28 September 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
the songs "Seasons of Your Day" and "Spoon" are really doing it for me here in this early autumn. I already knew Common Burn and Lay Myself Down were awesome.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Saturday, 28 September 2013 00:02 (ten years ago) link
will get round to hearing it soon. the older I get the more anal I seen to become.
― OutdoorFish, Tuesday, 15 October 2013 14:06 (ten years ago) link
"in the kingdom" is so great, the guitar strings sound as if they had smoked a joint and popped some acid afterwards. the notes are stretched for an eternity, that slide guitar is terrific. the next two songs are still quite nice but after that i only love the slightly melancholic "lay myself down" which starts as a kind of stomper and finishes as a surreal painting by the pedal steel guitar. mazzy star know how to give the rural country music an urban psychedelic touch.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Thursday, 17 October 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
seem, even
― OutdoorFish, Thursday, 17 October 2013 21:21 (ten years ago) link
surprise new non-LP single i'm less here / things has come out. sounds a bit more stripped down than the album. b-side is pretty lovely
― stiff alboner (electricsound), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 05:46 (nine years ago) link
this album rules!
― marcos, Monday, 14 August 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
as good or better than the earlier albums imo
I think I heard this once on an NPR stream and then forgot to get an actual copy :(
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 August 2017 15:43 (six years ago) link
I don't know. After the dust has settled, I've kind of looked at this as one of the less fruitful reunions/come backs. Seasons of Your Day was good, but I'd have no issue with calling it their "worst" album.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 14 August 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link
surely better than among my swan imo
― marcos, Monday, 14 August 2017 15:47 (six years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Monday, August 14, 2017 11:43 AM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too and for some reason it occurred to me put it on the other night and i've prob listened to it about 5 times since then
― marcos, Monday, 14 August 2017 15:48 (six years ago) link
Nope, Among My Swan has always been my hands down favorite of their albums.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 14 August 2017 17:50 (six years ago) link
don't think I've come across that particular opinion before
― Οὖτις, Monday, 14 August 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCtqzkftXRE
Dave's guitar ventures off into genuinely new sounds (for him) all throughout the album. Phase shifters, different delay types, and a sort of ring modulator effect are all over it. It's always been their most sonically pretty album to me. And I happen to like that sort of thing.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 14 August 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
So Tonight That I Might See + Seasons of Your Day >> Among My Swan >> She Hangs Brightly
I love all their albums, but She Hangs Brightly is definitely the weakest of the four for me, with Seasons and So Tonight sharing the top tier. I like the narrative that they nailed down what they were going for on the second album and stayed in that groove for the next two, but honestly if you look at the timeline for the recording of Seasons of Your Day, that doesn't really hold up at all. It has songs (or at least parts of songs) that were recorded in 1990. Maybe it's progression in production only?
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 14 August 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
She Hangs Brightly is one of my favorite Mazzy Star records
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:13 (six years ago) link
It's my #2. Behind Among My Swan, to be exact.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Monday, 14 August 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
Among My Swan is their album of 4-minute pop bangers
(kinda)
― sbahnhof, Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link