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MAZZY STAR She Hangs Brightly 1990 US ROUGH TRADE - ONE PLAY - NEAR MINT MAZZY STAR
She Hangs Brightly

1990 US ROUGH TRADE (RUS 77)
AN OUTSTANDING *NEAR MINT* ORIGINAL COPY OF THEIR DEBUT
ONCE PLAYED AND LIKE NEW

MATRIX: RUSS-77-1-A 28371 (3)… / RUSS-77-1-B 28372 (3)…

She Hangs Brightly is the debut studio album by American band Mazzy Star.
It was released in 1990 on Rough Trade Records, following the demise of David Roback's previous band Opal.
Baby, I wish I was dead," sings Hope Sandoval on "Halah," the opening cut, and in her resignation she sounds almost elated. It's a line – and a moment – that perfectly embodies Mazzy Star's sinister charm.
Mazzy Star's mastermind, noted California songwriter and producer David Roback, a former member of the bands Rain Parade, Clay Allison and Opal, has always been adept at swathing his music in chilling but romantic gloom. With Mazzy Star, he seems to have perfected his method, the most essential element of which is to enlist a woman vocalist with a cool, flat voice, a singer whose emotional resonance stems almost entirely from her seeming detachment. Sandoval is no exception to this rule: Her dispassionate voice is incredibly effective at building up the sort of slow, psychedelic tension that Roback's songs revel in.
Roback has always looked to the late Sixties for inspiration, and Mazzy Star is imbued with the sounds of that era. "Ghost Highway" and the title track, in particular, with their churning, two-chord organ backgrounds, sound bizarrely Doors-like, though the Velvet Underground is, as usual, Roback's main point of reference. "Be My Angel" ends with a Revolver-era Beatles riff, and songs like "Free," "Ride It On," "Taste of Blood" and "Give You My Lovin'" are all possessed of a twisted country lethargy.
For all its slow, acoustic qualities, Mazzy Star could not be called folkie. Despite the band's considered pace, there's something inherently electric about Sandoval's ethereal vocals and the hypnotic strumming behind them. The music is a foreboding, swirl of dark sound and fragile melody, and the sentiments are, to put it mildly, bleak. Ultimately, Mazzy Star's hypnotic music, like Sandoval's voice, is as entrancing as the reflection of an ominous night sky on a lake. And its effect is just as disquieting. (Rolling Stone)

Side 1:
Halah (3:12)
Blue Flower (3:32)
Ride It On (2:58)
She Hangs Brightly (6:22)
I'm Sailin (3:10)
Side 2:
Give You My Lovin (3:47)
Be My Angel (3:14)
Taste Of Blood (5:33)
Ghost Highway (3:25)
Free (3:06)
Before I Sleep (2:09)

LABELS: NEAR MINT
Clean, unmarked labels - one light spindle trace per side
VINYL Visual: NEAR MINT
Both surfaces shine like new
VINYL Audio: NEAR MINT
Plays beautifully throughout with nothing to fault
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
Crisp, clean, sharp and fresh with nothing but a little rub to the spine

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