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In many ways, the noir tune distills the decade\u2019s gravitational pull toward melancholy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though the band never had another hit to match it, the dream pop of \u201cFade Into You\u201d continues in artists like Lana Del Rey, Beach House, and many others. And it\u2019s hard not to notice the dispassionate similarities between Del Ray and Mazzy Star\u2019s Hope Sandoval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heartbreakingly detached and effortlessly cool, Sandoval\u2019s plaintive songs arrived on the opposite end of an island in the 90s when most of the angst and pain was being delivered via screams and distorted guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFade Into You\u201d appears on the band\u2019s second album, <em>So Tonight That I Might See<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mazzy Star - Fade Into You (Official Music Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ImKY6TZEyrI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Shoegaze<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandoval swings forlornly between want and despair. She wants to be close with a partner, vulnerable, secure. But she sees nothing in return. The other exists in darkness, and their solitude begins to cover Sandoval in heavy shadows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I wanna hold the hand inside you,<br>I wanna take the breath that\u2019s true.<br>I look to you and I see nothing,<br>I look to you to see the truth.<br>You live your life, you go in shadows,<br>You\u2019ll come apart and you\u2019ll go blind.<br>Some kind of night into your darkness,<br>Colors your eyes with what\u2019s not there<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Co-written with bandmate and producer David Roback, Sandoval sings \u201cFade Into You\u201d in a kind of smoke-filled, country gloom. Here, she suggests the distance between her and her partner is so vast, they never noticed her moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the slow waltz of the song, it\u2019s like she\u2019s been dancing with a ghost the whole time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Fade into you,<br>Strange you never knew.<br>Fade into you,<br>I think it\u2019s strange you never knew<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Stranger\u2019s Heart<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This seems to be the end of the relationship. And perhaps that\u2019s the most shocking thing about ending a romance, how quickly the intimacy becomes utter strangeness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A stranger light comes on slowly,<br>A stranger\u2019s heart without a home.<br>You put your hands into your head,<br>And then its smiles cover your heart<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo by Ebet Roberts\/Redferns<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFade Into You\u201d by Mazzy Star remains one of the best sad ballads of the 1990s. In many ways, the noir tune distills the decade\u2019s gravitational pull toward melancholy. 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