Mazzy Star’s back catalogue is studded with glories, but for mine, “Fade Into You” is far and away their finest moment — mysterious, languorous and ineffably nocturnal, its hazy, velvet sway is pure magic, a dark-stoned bracelet glimmering in the night. I’ve been listening to this song for years and it’s still as immediate and as impenetrable as ever, its layers as beguiling and as inscrutable, the tones of yearning and contentment as perfectly mingled, the quiet wonder as unshakeable and undeniable.
