Posts Tagged ‘Mazzy Star’

Shoegazer Sunday: Hollie Blue Covers “Fade Into You”

Sunday, March 17th, 2024

Here’s UK performer Hollie Blue covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.”

Not bad, and she’s easy on the eyes…

Shoegazer Sunday: Sara Rachele Covers “Fade Into You”

Sunday, March 1st, 2020

I’d never heard Sara Rachele before I went looking for covers of “Fade Into You.” She’s good enough to provide a close approximation of Hope Sandoval’s voice. The arrangement is more sparse and lonely than the Mazzy Star original, accentuating the sad, twangy, “coming home from a honky tonk alone at 3 AM” vibe of the song.

Mazzy Star’s David Roback, RIP

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

David Roback, half of duo Mazzy Star, has died at age 61. He co-wrote their one hit, the haunting “Fade Into You”:

Mazzy Star got called Shoegaze because there wasn’t anything else to call them, but their twangy guitar sound, and Hope Sandoval’s breathy, honey-and-bourbon vocals, were like nothing else on the scene.

Shogazer Sunday: Trespassers William’s “Lie in the Sound”

Sunday, June 1st, 2014

Imagine Mazzy Star on Quaaludes, but not as good. That’s Trespassers Wiilliams, a sort of twangy Shoegaze-meets-Slowcore outfit. Here’s “Lie in the Sound,” which strikes (as much of their work does) as slight, pleasant chill-out music.

Shoegazer Sunday: Stumbleine Covers “Fade Into You”

Sunday, March 23rd, 2014

Yet another cover, this one UK’s Stumbleine covering Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.”

Shoegazer Sunday: Tamaryn’s “Love Fade”

Sunday, December 29th, 2013

Tamaryn (New York/LA/San Francisco by way of New Zealand) gets compared to Mazzy Star a lot, and you can hear that, but The Jesus and Mary Chain is another good point of comparison. Here’s “Love Fade”.

Shoegazer Sunday: Thrushes Cover “Fade Into You”

Sunday, September 23rd, 2012

You may already know of my affection for Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You,” and a couple of week’s ago I put up a Thrushes song, so naturally a Thrushes cover of “Fade Into You” peaked my interest.

The nice thing about this version is that it foregrounds the similarities with Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door,” and if anything is more wistfully melancholy than the original. The only flaw is that lead singer Anna Conner, while good, just isn’t Hope Sandoval. But who is?

Shoegazer Sunday: Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You”

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You” is the music Bruce Sterling would put on at the end of the party after every Turkey City Writer’s Workshop held at his house, mainly so people would leave. It worked too, not because it was bad, but because the waltz tempo, echoey steel guitar and smoky vocals make it the perfect “chill out at the end of a long day and feel your eyelids getting heavy” song. I bought the single off iTunes, but I think I might need to pick up the entire album, So Tonight That I Might See, as I’ve developed a craving for Hope Sandoval’s voice, which combines that smokey, chill tone of a classic jazz/blues chanteuse with peak-period Sinatra’s last-second, end-of-the-measure timing.

Is Mazzy Star shoegazer? I think they’re more sui generis, but I’ve seen “Fade Into You” on several Best of Shoegazer lists, and that’s good enough for me…