waking to cloudy skies and a steady cold rain makes exiting the warmth of the covers an immense task. there are few things that aide the transition into the waking state. hope sandoval and her music is among them. most of you probably know hope sandoval from the mopey alt. rock vehicle named mazzy star. yes, the band that sang fade into you, or the song at the end of the movie angus. hope sandoval was the voice to a band that brought the shoegazing 90's to a quiet close only to reappear as a solo artist around the turn of the millennium. her solo material can be related to another early 90's group of shoegazers called slowdive. slowdive ended and morphed into mojave 3, leaving the feedback behind for a stripped down folky quality. this is what sandoval's post-mazzy star music sounds like. these two changes also give a clue into what lies behind the wall of noise with all the bands of the same genre. regardless here are three tracks that illustrate the beauty and wonder of sandoval's dream-like warble of a voice.
-suzanne
-on the low
-clear day
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