There’s something really remarkable about the impact of Mazzy Star’s music despite a very thin catalog with a vast majority (three full length studio albums) being released between 1991 and 1996. Threads of the band’s signature sound have been woven into the output of nearly all dream pop artists over the past 25+ years. Mazzy Star created music that became a benchmark for the genre. They are to dream pop as Black Sabbath is to heavy metal and Nirvana is to grunge.
Since those formative years in the early 1990s, the band released their fourth studio album Seasons of Your Day in 2013, and the beginning of this month saw the release of a new EP called Still. This new collection contains three new songs and a remake of “So Tonight That I Might See”, the title track of their 1993 album that arguably contained their most well known song “Fade Into You”. The entire EP fits very comfortably into the band’s extremely consistent aesthetic, a slow simplistic dreamy melancholy that swings from sweet melodies to spacey psychedelia, created through Hope Sandoval’s lush vocals that swim in thick layer of reverb and the psychedelic noodling guitar riffs from David Roback, who formed the band with Sandoval in 1989.
Sit back, relax, and fade into the latest sounds from Mazzy Star.