Mazzy Star: Seasons of your Day

official release date today, it's up on spotify... listening right now.

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

this is good, i'm enjoying it. does hope sing with more of a twang than on the older albums?

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.

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.

yeah, I don't really want a Mazzy Star record that's attempting to surprise or challenge me.

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.

will get round to hearing it soon. the older I get the more anal I seen to become.

"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.

seem, even

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

this album rules!

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 :(

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.

surely better than among my swan imo

I think I heard this once on an NPR stream and then forgot to get an actual copy :(

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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

Nope, Among My Swan has always been my hands down favorite of their albums.

don't think I've come across that particular opinion before

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.

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?

She Hangs Brightly is one of my favorite Mazzy Star records

It's my #2. Behind Among My Swan, to be exact.

Among My Swan is their album of 4-minute pop bangers

(kinda)