Mazzy Star announces his return for September 2013

It was the perfect pair of psychedelic rock and '80s pop / 90. Together, David Roback (ex-Opal, ex-Rain Parade) and Hope Sandoval Mazzy Star embodied with a rock classicism whose evocative power knew beyond its roots. Pushing the envelope a little further, they even be accused of "dream pop pioneers" (think Beach House, think Au Revoir Simone). Simply put, Mazzy Star was unique, leaving us orphans after three albums as beautiful qu'incontournables. But surprisingly, they are well and truly back with their next album Seasons of Your Day, scheduled for Mazzy Star September 24.

Maybe a little early to dream pop, but in any case everything came together to make a dream team. Beauty and the beast. The velvety voice of rapper beautiful to the eyes of deer aboies accompanied by agreements sometimes plaintive, sometimes hypnotic and stretched a taciturn guitarist, back, folded on itself. All serving sets to love stories lost in the desert, defeats and follies. The soundtrack disillusioned already, a time that is no more. The late 80s and early 90s. Those who at the time were sheltered from the sun in the shade of Darkland of Jesus & Mary Chain , and swore by the Velvet Underground , Yo La Tengo , the twang and noisy pop of Creation Records, languid saturations Ride or the first complaints of Will Oldham with or without Palace Music or sad songs Song Ohia, could only fall under the charm of the first two albums of Mazzy Star , psychedelic rock (and pop) She Hangs Brightly (1990), and the feverish So Tonight That I Might See(1993). 

A delicate balance

But already in 1993, things were not easy between the "young" Hope and reclusive Roback. The couple, ambiguous, kept in their report-scarce-statements, their duo lived the same electrical jolts that evoked both interested in their tracks. Fusion between love ("Fade Into You", "Umbilical"), supplications ("Be My Baby", "Five String Serenade"), ruptures ("Disappear", "Cry Cry") and dislocations ("Into Dust", " Ghost in The Highway, "" Still Cold "," Mary Of Silence "), the couple breaks up and finds himself, threatening the delicate balance that makes Mazzy Star black star of the U.S. pop and rock these years there. Three years of silence will eventually lead to the release-really expected, although a late-third album, Among My Swan . More inclined to make concessions as more mainstream, Among My Swan would obviously have a less melancholy more smiling face. It should be recalled that in 1996, times are tough for those who play the six strings, the time is techno, and the success of the Chemical Brothers also allow them to "borrow" Hope Sandoval in his dark time to mentor a "Asleep From Day" which will delight Air France for its advertising. In fact, apart from the real lover of rock and psychedelic pop, the album will go relatively unnoticed and mark the decline of the duo.

Years "without"

Mazzy Star is actually never really split. The duo simply abandons chips stage and - on - success that was theirs for a simpler life. A mysterious life, because, as you never really knew if Roback and Sandoval dark brown were "together", no one knows either what was their existence during these lean years. And besides, what's the point? The group gradually became an object of worship, in the shadows, developing its roots elsewhere in the fertile anonymity steeped in culture underground rock soil. While David Roback is ready to play in production, Hope Sandoval flew to Scotland where she lends her voice on the last album - listenable - the Reid brothers of Jesus & Mary Chain ("Sometimes Always" on the aptly namedStoned & Dethroned published in 1994). Then radio silence. Both disappear shady waves.  

Return through the back door

In 2004, David Roback has notified the company of the Hong Kongaise actressMaggie Cheung on the soundtrack to the beautiful Clean 's Olivier Assayas .For its part, Miss Sandoval formed his new band, The Warm Inventions, who gets the recipe for Mazzy Star, the hypnotic power and electric shock of Mr. Roback less. The fans are content, others listen to (maybe) but the album will move quickly to something else. Yet Hope Sandoval & The Warm Intentions released two beautiful albums, Bavarian Fruit Breaden  (2009) and Through The Devil Softly (2011). More appeased the previous Mazzy Star, Among My Swan , both laid back discs are worn by the inimitable voice of rock diva, but lack of grip to really like it.

Then suddenly it's back, the truth, or at least that's what we imagine listening to "Common Burn" / "Lay Myself Down", a single that appears magically in the fall of 2011 . Discreet, the couple announced that the object will be findable at digital format, but the subject was finally released through the label Rhymes Of An Hour Records, self-produced and named after one of the eponymous title of the last disc duo. And then there is silence again, after a brief media excitement and a few puffs of hope.

But it is now official for a few days: the king duo that formed the square roots of the current dream pop, fruit of the equation saturated fuzz guitar arpeggios x + monotone voice and melody rustic smoky, returns on September 24 with Seasons Of Your Day , a fourth album in the black as ink and adorned with the heraldic figure of a cat, also black pouch. So bent, the two black cats pop and psychedelic rock of the 90's will be in stores soon, and to approve the announcement effect, we offer "California", the first single absolutely brilliant, as announced an "air designed for lovers and broken hearts." Fans will find agreements both rights in their boots and whirling, the emphasis contained, the melodic simplicity responsible for authenticity and sensuality, and arrangements (organ in the background, interwoven harmonies, subtle percussion) that make this duo unique in the current rock landscape. The album, produced in California and Norway by Hope Sandoval and David Roback themselves, benefit from the presence of Colm O'Ciosoig (drummer of My Bloody Valentine ). It will be released on CD, 180g double vinyl and digital on their own label Rhymes Of An Hour Records format and will be distributed by INgrooves.

Conclude by quoting a speaker who stated on YouTube recently, listening to their new single " . They could not have picked a better time in our culture to them-much needed return we would appreciate a little more authenticity in today's musical landscape. Where everything is so smug and artificial .... it's just pure and authentic. " Says it all!