Stream: Mazzy Star, ‘Quiet, the Winter Harbor’

S.Lo on April 21st, 2018

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Mazzy Star have leaked a new song, “Quiet, the Winter Harbor,” off a new EP, “Still,” to be released June 1 via Rhymes of an Hour Records. It comes on the heels of Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions’ EP release “Son of a Lady” and appearance last year at Desert Daze and five years after Mazzy Star’s own “Seasons of Your Day” comeback album in 2013 and standalone Record Store Day release in 2014, “I’m Less Here.”

The track is a yearning saunter back to the sound many first fell in love with in “Fade Into You,” Sandoval’s vocal bends falling into David Roback’s guitar bends. It begins simply, with just cascading piano chords and Sandoval’s voice like a swooning lullaby, singing about a solitary figure, “Well, you’re still walkin’ around the block / You had a long time / To think who you are… You’re like a villain / In some old film / Walkin’ in the dark in somebody’s room. …” Then she turns to this dark figure for salvation, “Save me ’cause I’m still sinking / And you’ve got a harbor close to the shore / Sinful, your thoughts are swimming / I’d like to see them when you’re alone.” David Roback’s guitar answers this seduction in the ensuing interlude & outro, melancholy sliding up to meet her. It’s the perfect slow dance for broken souls.

Mazzy Star thus far have only three live dates planned: at the Sydney Opera House on June 11, 12 and 13 during the Vivid Sydney festival, their very first visit down under.

||| Stream: “Quiet, the Winter Harbor”