A stranger's light comes on slowly, a stranger's heart is out of home

Thursday music corner: Featuring the woozy, torch-song vocals of the beautiful Hope Sandoval, MTV staple Fade Into You was this Californian band from the psychedelic Paisley Underground movement’s most prominent song, reaching no.3 on the US Billboard Modern Rock chart in 1994. At the time, the Los Angeles Times called the song’s parent album, So Tonight That I Might See, "far more narcotic and hypnotic than anything the whole techno-trance universe has digitally blipped up to date."

Mazzy Star – Fade Into You (1993)

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