After an eight-year absence, former Mazzy Star singer Hope Sandoval is back with Through The Devil Softly, her second album with the Warm Inventions, a band she formed in 2001 with My Bloody Valentine drummer Colm Ó Cíosóig. If you liked Mazzy Star, you’ll love the album’s first single “Blanchard” — download it below.
The song features Sandoval’s hypnotizing vocals — along with a spine-tingling, otherworldly sound that comes on like a warm opium dream.
Through The Devil Softly drops September 15 via Nettwerk Records.
LISTEN: Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, “Blanchard” (DOWNLOAD MP3)
Mazzy Star is an American alternative rock band formed in Santa Monica, California, in 1989 from remnants of the group Opal.Founding member David Roback's friend Hope Sandoval became the group's vocalist when Kendra Smith left Opal. Mazzy Star is best known for the song 'Fade into You' which brought the band some success in the mid-1990s and was the group's biggest mainstream hit, earning. Mazzy Star's first album since 1996's Among My Swan, 2013's Seasons of Your Day reunites guitarist David Roback and singer Hope Sandoval for a set of hazy, psychedelic songs that bring an unexpected country influence to their familiar dreamy sound. Having broken through with the dream pop anthem 'Fade Into You' off 1993's So Tonight That I Might See, Mazzy Star became the poster children for a.
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Mazzy Star's first album since 1996's Among My Swan, 2013's Seasons of Your Day reunites guitarist David Roback and singer Hope Sandoval for a set of hazy, psychedelic songs that bring an unexpected country influence to their familiar dreamy sound. Aug 22, 2015 Provided to YouTube by Ingrooves Common Burn Mazzy Star Seasons of Your Day ℗ 2013 Rhymes of an Hour Records Released on: 2013-09-24 Writer: David Roback Writer: Hope Sandoval Auto-generated. Mazzy Star, David Roback, and Hope Sandoval in Mazzy Star: Fade Into You, Color Version (1993).
Review by Tim Sendra
Hope Sandoval isn't the quickest worker, it took Mazzy Star almost 20 years to put out their fourth album, and this record comes seven years after the last one she made with Colm Ó Cíosóig under the Warm Inventions name. Despite the time it took to arrive, Until the Hunter is no great departure for the duo. It features many hushed, lit-by-candlelight ballads, loads of quiet beauty, and Sandoval's timelessly beautiful singing. Songs drift by on a wispy cloud of acoustic strumming, lazily twanged slide guitar, and twinkling keys, sometimes gently pushed forward by lightly brushed drums, sometimes left to float along on their own. New to the mix this time is vibraphone, as played by Sandoval, and a couple songs that stretch her horizons just a bit. The duet with Kurt Vile on 'Let Me Get There' features the duo getting loose over a slinky Memphis soul groove: Sandoval sounding strangely at home in unfamiliar surroundings, Vile sounding like he wandered in off the street and barely learned the song. It's too bad he got the gig -- there are at least 50 male singers who could have nailed it in his place. The album-opening 'Into the Trees' is a very, very slowly unspooling psych folk ballad that doesn't have much of a tune, but grabs the listener by the throat using its foggy chords, mysterious organ, and Sandoval's almost possessed vocals. It lasts for nine minutes, but could have gone on twice as long. The rest of the album is fully up to the standards Sandoval has established over time, with heart-tugging ballads like the very Mazzy Star-sounding 'The Peasant' and the lovely 'Day Disguise,' languid folk songs ('The Hiking Song,' 'A Wonderful Seed'), and even a couple songs of a more sprightly-than-usual nature, the handclap-driven 'I Took a Slip' and the almost jaunty 'Isn't it True.' As on previous Warm Inventions records, Sandoval and Ó Cíosóig prove masters of creating atmospheric settings for her luminous vocals. The addition of vibraphone and the slightly more expansive arrangements help make the album a subtle progression from the first two, so do the increased number of catchy songs. The duo have crafted another beautiful album and Sandoval sounds just as bewitching as she did the first time she stepped behind a microphone. Seven years is a long time to wait between albums, but if that's how long it takes to make the album as good as this is, then the wait was worth it.
Hope Sandoval Auto Tune 2017
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1 | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 09:04 | Amazon | |
2 | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 04:57 | Amazon | |
3 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 04:19 | Amazon |
4 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 07:30 | Amazon |
5 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 04:51 | Amazon |
6 | Charles Cullen / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 05:53 | Amazon |
7 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 04:22 | Amazon |
8 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 04:28 | Amazon |
9 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 03:05 | Amazon |
10 | Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 04:04 | Amazon |
11 | Dave Brennan / Alan Montgomery / Colm O'Ciosoig / Hope Sandoval | Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions / Hope Sandoval | 06:23 | Amazon |