She Hangs Brightly by Mazzy Star

She Hangs Brightly, the debut album from Mazzy Star, came out on Rough Trade on May 21, 1990, before Capitol picked it up for a reissue later that year. The band had grown out of the remains of Opal in Santa Monica, with David Roback composing most of the music, his friend Hope Sandoval singing her own words over it, and founding drummer Keith Mitchell keeping the pulse slow.

It's a narcotic, twilight sort of record: reverb-soaked guitars, a psychedelic haze and Sandoval's voice floating somewhere between a lullaby and a sigh. "Halah" is the drowsy, gorgeous slow-burner at its center, and "Ghost Highway" rattles along with a little more dust on its boots; it later landed on the soundtrack of the 1994 film Love and a .45. So Tonight That I Might See came next.

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