Vinyl Record

Mazzy Star - Among My Swan

Mazzy Star - Among My Swan on LP vinyl. A 1996 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.

LP · 1996

Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.

Buyer notes: 1996 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.

Among My Swan is Mazzy Star's 1996 third album, arriving after the unexpected reach of Fade Into You had made the band's hushed world briefly visible to a much larger audience. Rather than chase that moment, Hope Sandoval and David Roback made a record that feels even more withdrawn, patient, and weathered. The songs move through narcotic blues, folk-rock drift, desert twang, and slow psychedelic haze, with Sandoval's voice often sounding less like a lead vocal than a figure half-lit in the room. Flowers in December is the most immediate entry point, but the album's strength lies in its refusal to hurry: Disappear, Rhymes of an Hour, Cry Cry, and All Your Sisters linger in a private emotional climate. In 1996, when alternative rock was often loud, ironic, or commercially sharpened, Among My Swan preserved a quieter language of longing. It became the end of Mazzy Star's original 1990s run, making its air of fading light feel especially apt.

It matters because Among My Swan confirmed that Mazzy Star's power was not dependent on a single crossover song. The album deepened their slow, blues-shadowed dream-pop identity and closed their 1990s sequence with remarkable restraint.

For collectors, this is the late-1990s Mazzy Star album to own when the appeal is atmosphere over obvious singles. It pairs beautifully with So Tonight That I Might See, but it is more subdued, rural, and inward-looking, with a strong after-hours continuity from side to side.

Slow dream-pop and desert blues with tremolo guitar, brushed rhythms, harmonica shadows, organ haze, spare bass, and Hope Sandoval's intimate, drifting vocal presence.

Recommended for: Mazzy Star fans drawn to the band's quietest 1990s mood; Listeners who like dream-pop with blues and folk undertones; Collectors completing the core Hope Sandoval and David Roback run.

Is Among My Swan the album with Fade Into You? No. Fade Into You is on So Tonight That I Might See; Among My Swan followed in 1996 and has a more withdrawn atmosphere. What is the key song on Among My Swan? Flowers in December is the best-known track, though the album works best as a slow, continuous mood. Was this Mazzy Star's final 1990s album? Yes. It closed the band's original 1990s studio run before their much later return.