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2[[caption-width-right:350: ''Send me your flowers of your December...'' [[note]] L-R: David Roback (guitar) and Hope Sandoval (lead vocals). [[/note]]]]
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4Mazzy Star is an AlternativeRock band from Santa Monica, California, active since 1989. The band is known for its folky, PsychedelicRock-influenced DreamPop sound and being a OneHitWonder thanks to the song "Fade Into You".
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6Mazzy Star formed out of the ashes of Paisley Underground band Opal. It is largely based around the creative partnership of guitarist/keyboardist/songwriter David Roback and vocalist Hope Sandoval, with additional contributors being bassist Jill Emery, drummer Keith Mitchell and keyboardist Suki Ewers. Their previous keyboardist, William Cooper, died in 2001.
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8The band released three albums in TheNineties full of slightly melancholic but somehow still [[SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel nice-sounding]], folky DreamPop with occasional influences from PsychedelicRock (especially Music/TheDoors) and {{Shoegazing}}. The most successful of these was ''So Tonight That I Might See'', by virtue of having their most commercially successful song, "Fade Into You", on it.
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10Mazzy Star never officially broke up, but the duo went on hiatus in 2000. Sandoval occasionally makes guest appearances on other albums (such as for Music/TheChemicalBrothers and Music/TheJesusAndMaryChain) and works (very slowly) with the band Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions (which included Colm Ó Cíosóig of Music/MyBloodyValentine during the latter's hiatus). Roback moved to Norway and remained really quiet, surfacing for a small acting part in the movie ''Clean''. In 2009, Sandoval [[http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/07/06/mazzy-star-crooner-readies-return-with-hope-sandoval-and-the-warm-inventions/ confirmed that Mazzy Star were still together]], and that they were just competing against Music/MyBloodyValentine in the "world's laziest band" contest. In October 2011, the band's website announced that they were recording a 4th studio album; the album, ''Seasons of Your Day'', was released in September 2013. The band subsequently returned to their hiatus, with Sandoval continuing her work with The Warm Inventions and making guest appearances on other albums.
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12Unfortunately, David Roback died at the age of 61 on February 25, 2020. Hope Sandoval has not given any indication on whether or not she will continue to use the Mazzy Star name in his absence.
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14Their song "Into Dust" is apparently the theme for ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar3''.
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16Discography:
17* ''She Hangs Brightly'' (1990)
18* ''So Tonight That I Might See'' (1993)
19* ''Among My Swan'' (1996)
20* ''Seasons of Your Day'' (2013)
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22!!Tropes used by Mazzy Star include:
23* CoverVersion: "Blue Flower" by Music/SlappHappy (on ''Brightly'') and "Five String Serenade" by Arthur Lee (on ''Tonight'').
24* EchoingAcoustics: Especially on ''Brightly.''
25* EpicRocking: ''Tonight's'' TitleTrack.
26* LastNoteNightmare: "Into Dust" is a haunting, five-and-a-half-minute Drone of Melancholy in itself, but it ends with a discordant string riff that doesn't resolve.
27* LongestSongGoesLast: ''So Tonight That I Might See'' ends with it's title track (7:19).
28* ShrinkingViolet: Hope Sandoval is known to be this, preferring to perform either way in the back or in the dark live.
29* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth / {{Minimalism}}: Their songs aren't very complex compositionally, usually very slow and melancholic, and Sandoval's singing is reserved and quiet.
30%%* PerishingAltRockVoice
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