Mazzy Star “Common Burn”
While we wouldn’t be surprised if there were a small number of people somewhere around the globe lighting a candle and saying a prayer every night in the hopes that their “favoritest band ever” ’90′s dream-pop/ alternative/ acousti-indie-folk/ pure goodness duo Mazzy Star would bless them with a comeback after fifteen years of silence, for others, it took hearing The Dum Dum Girl’s summer release “Coming Down”, a song which bore a hell of a resemblance to Mazzy’s “big hit” “Fade Into You”, to be re-reminded of how much they missed the team of David Roback and Hope Sandoval.
Incidentally, only a few months after “Coming Down”‘s emergence, Mazzy Star have returned, previewing their upcoming fourth full-length, and first new album since 1996′s Among My Swan, with the release of single “Common Burn”, a blissful entity of a song that finds the group effortlessly picking up where they left off all those years ago.
With its calming brew of acoustic guitar strums and mesmerizing harmonica elements and Sandoval’s echo-laden vocal and unrequited romantic longing drippings providing the creamy filling, “Burn”‘s lonesome twangy simmer easily lands as all anyone could of ever asked out of a MZ comeback effort.
Single drops October 31st.
