CLASSIC ALBUM: Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See

Mazzy Star’s most celebrated album So Tonight That I Might See was released in 1993.  Out of the three records that Mazzy Star released in their initial 90s incarnation, So Tonight That I Might See is indeed THE One, though the other two ain’t bad either!

The album opens with Fade Into You, the track most synonymous with Mazzy Star and sets the hazy, narcotic, ghostly scene for much of what follows. Other highlights include Mary of Silence, a cover of Arthur Lee’s Five String Serenade, She’s My Baby, Into Dust and the 7-minute title track that closes the album out. Across the album Hope Sandoval and David Roback let their influences from 60s psychedelic rock and folk, the proto goth-rock of early VU, druggy drones of Spacemen 3 and the ethereal noise of JAMC coalesce into what is one of the greatest dream pop albums ever made.