Blog: Flowering Toilet

It's a fine line between dreamy and narcoleptic. Maybe it's the difference between Hope Sandoval and Kendra Smith's voices, but while I always found Opal's music beautiful and hypnotic, I thought Mazzy Star (essentially the same band with a different singer) were pretty dull. Actually, truth be told, Opal's lone LP, Happy Nightmare Baby , was a little too "weird scenes inside the goldmine" for my taste. It has some good tracks to be sure, but much of it meanders. In my opinion, the band's really killer stuff can be found on the Early [...]

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