Among My Swan

Infobox Album
Name = Among My Swan
Type = album
Artist = Mazzy Star


Released = October 29, 1996
Recorded =
Genre = alternative rock
Length = 54:00
Label = Capitol
Producer = David Roback
Hope Sandoval
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0yk9ikpjbb69 link]
Last album = "So Tonight That I Might See" (1993)
This album = "Among My Swan" (1996)
Next album =

Among My Swan is the third album by the band Mazzy Star. Although "Among My Swan" did not contain any US Billboard Hot 100 hits like its predecessor, "So Tonight That I Might See", this album did garner the band its highest-ranking single on the UK Singles Chart, when "Flowers In December" reached #40 in November 1996. [http://www.everyhit.com/searchsec.php] The album's second single, "I've Been Let Down", did not chart in either the United States or the UK.

Among My Swan relied less on the echo effect that was nearly ubiquitous in all tracks on the previous two albums. Hope Sandoval's voice is paired with simple acoustic instrumentation that marks most of the tracks. The guitar and harmonica accompaniment on "I've Been Let Down" is a prime example of this. These tracks are not markedly different in sound or feel from the preceding two albums.

"Among My Swan" is widely considered to be Mazzy Star's final album; although the band has not officially broken up, they have released no new material since the release of "I've Been Let Down" as a single in 1996, and lead singer Hope Sandoval has gone on to form Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, which released an album in 2001.

Track listing

#"Disappear" – 4:04
#"Flowers in December" – 4:57
#"Rhymes of an Hour" – 4:12
#"Cry, Cry" – 3:58
#"Take Everything" – 4:53
#* Drums: Aaron Sherer
#* Guitar: William Reid of The Jesus and Mary Chain
#"Still Cold" – 4:48
#* Drums: Aaron Sherer
#"All Your Sisters" – 5:16
#"I've Been Let Down" – 3:17
#"Roseblood" – 4:51
#"Happy" – 3:58
#"Umbilical" – 4:59
#"Look On Down from the Bridge" – 4:47