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In the Los Angeles of the 80s, in the shadow of the dream factory, Hope Sandoval and David Roback came together. Two introverted souls who loved the sound of the 60s as well as darkness. Without the Californian melancholy of her band Mazzy Star, the view would sound less comforting – and Lana Del Rey’s song on the old Hollywood would not be so comfortably noir. We take a look at the band’s discography.
Mazzy Star: Discography
She slangs Brightly
1990
Just don’t let the pop, jingle-jangling opener “Halah” deceive: Apart from the fact that this enchanting song is actually Morbide as Hell, you could describe sheer Hangs Brightly as a rock and bluesalbum of the band. Mazzy Star Covern Slapp Happy (“Blue Flower”), the blues singer Memphis Minnie (“I’m Sailing”) and actually sound a little like Hope Sandovals Idole, the early rolling stones in “Taste of Blood”.
“Ghost Highway”, the only song from opal times, steals undeniably steals at “My Eyes Have Seen You” by the doors, although the title is reminiscent of “Ghost on the Highway” from the Gun Club. With their wild country punk fusion, they were traveling in a different scene as Mazzy Star, but still haunted as a vague idea due to the dark night-in-the desert songs of this incredible debut-which can also be very gentle: With “Give You My Lovin” it also has an early, fine piece of Sandovals folk duo on She Hangs Hangs done.
★★★★★
So Tonight that i might See
1993
What can come after an opener like “Fade Into You”, a song that is as obvious and objectively beautiful as the damn starry sky? Everything. First of all: white noise and a melody that flows tough like sweet syrup (“Bells Ring”), a creepy warrior, driven by guitarendrons, through the night (“Mary of Silence”); A gentle cover of “Five String Serenade”, a piece of Love singer Arthur Lee, and a lullaby for lifelong souls (“Blue Light”) and a near-grade song (“She’s My Baby”).
Each piece on so tonight that i might lake is a hit, until the crowning end of its loops rotating title track Syd Barrett’s Echo echo into the nineties. Feelings of melancholy, isolation and uncomfortableness have never been spelled out more perfectly on an album. And we hereby state: “Into dust” is the saddest song in the whole world.
★★★★★
Among My Swan
1996
Was it the refusal to give the record company a second so tonight that i might See? Or just love the folk of the 1960s and 1970s? Mazzy Star screwed the volume down on her third album, protected the effect devices and scored more than ever Laurel Canyon.
“Flowers in December” sounds so much like Neil Young, “Cry, Cry”, even as precisely as “Helpless” that you suddenly stop suddenly heard of Hope Sandoval instead of Old Neil’s fistula voice. If we are also on the subject of “Excessive use of Mazzy Star songs in cinema and television”: The deeply sad farewell song “Look on Down from the Bridge” was already in the “sopranos” and in the cartoon series “Rick and Morty”.
★★★★★
Seasons of your day
2013
There are bands that reappear after years of silence, do the same as always – and get on the lid. And there were Mazzy Star, to whom fans and critics let go of the unexpected reunion, that everything sounded as usual: Robacks Sound between Lou Reed and Neil Young, the spooky country, the faded slidegitars, Sandovals, longing, sometimes seriously resigned vocals: “Give Me one Bottle of Wine and Two for the Road, ”she sings in“ Sparrow ”. Only the over -ring, they were somehow missing here.
★★★★ ☆
Silent
EP
2018
“Quiet, The Winter Harbor” is a requiem on the piano, the title piece leads you deep into the cold forest. It is somehow scary that the final EP ends before David Roback’s death with an even more spensive version of the 25 -year -old song “So Tonight that I Might See” – but also very fitting as the end of the career of the great artists of the disappearance.
★★★★★
Before Mazzy Star
OPAL
Happy Nightmare Baby
1987
If you add “overlooked strokes of genius” in the large mocker lexicon, you will find an entry for Happy Nightmare Baby. The first and only LP by David Robacks and Kendra Smith’s project Opal combines the outrageousness of T. Rex with the occult, played with heavy lids played Proto-Gothic-Psych rock by The Velvet Underground at Nico’s times. In addition, a little chamber music – and a seductive title song that feels like a crazy trip on the opposite trip.
★★★★★
After Mazzy Star:
Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions
Bavarian Fruit Bread
2001
Mark E. Smith, singer of The Fall, once said the legendary sentence: “Even if it is only me and your grandma on the bongos, it is still the case.” The situation is similar with Hope Sandoval: wherever she says, Mazzy-Star feeling is in. With her solo project, in which Colm ó Cíosóig from My Bloody Valentine is involved, she covered the Jesus and Mary Chains “Drop” and invited the British folkie Bert Jansch, which Mazzy Star always mentioned as influence. But nobody among these celebrities shines as Sandoval’s outdoor voice as the psychedelic expert Roback.
★★★★ ☆
Underground Pearls: More forgotten songs from the Paisley Underground
The Rain Parade: “I Look Around”
The Dream Syndicate: “Then She Remembers”
Thin White Rope: “The Three Song”
The Long Ryders: “I had a dream”
The Three O’Clock: “I Go Wild”