#142
April 1985
The Apartments
The Evening Visits...and Stays for Years
4 out of 5
Highlights:
Mr. Somewhere
The Black Road Shines (On Rainy Nights)
If there was a strikethrough feature on Facebook I would have written and crossed out Mazzy Star where the name of the band is. This is some moody stuff. Lovely and dreamy and was transported by Peter Walsh’s voice as he almost falls out of tune. There is a lushness that he can’t complement so he just allows it to lift him up.
Either The Apartments influenced hundreds of bands because they all had this album or if these guys just tapped into something that was bubbling under the surface…not quite shoe gaze but on that journey…it’s hard to imagine that The Go-Betweens and Lloyd Cole and all of THEIR followers didn’t have this record.
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