So Tonight That I Might See by Mazzy Star

So Tonight That I Might See, Mazzy Star's second album, came out on Capitol in the autumn of 1993, following She Hangs Brightly, and it sounds like dusk turned into music. Hope Sandoval and David Roback built a hazy, slow-drifting world of reverb, shimmering guitar and hushed vocals that seem to float a foot above the ground, never in a hurry to get anywhere.

It opens with "Fade Into You", a lonely, gently swaying ballad that became the band's only single to reach the Billboard Hot 100 and remains the song everybody knows them by. It's a perfect doorway into the rest of the record, which unspools in the same dreamy, narcotic way, a little bit country and a little bit spooked.

It drew raves when it came out and its reputation has only grown since; it's now counted among the finest albums of the '90s. Among My Swan followed it.

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