It's been 17 years since Mazzy Star last released an album. In the meantime they've been ... well, you'll have to wait until Friday to read an exclusive interview with the band. But one thing they most certainly have not been doing is putting the finishing touches towards their new EDM direction. Seasons of Your Day picks up sonically where 1996's Among My Swan left off – intimate, opiated folk rock. Perhaps this is not surprising. As guitarist David Roback says: "We were always recording and writing. We just didn't release any of it publicly."

Mazzy Stars aesthetic may have been copied by countless bands since we last heard from them, but this fourth album proves that nobody can really sound quite like Mazzy Star. So have a listen using the player below and let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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