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}} ''Seasons of Your Day'' is the fourth studio album by American alternative rock band Mazzy Star. It was released on September 24, 2013 by the band's own independent record label, Rhymes of An Hour. Their first record since the release of their third album ''Among My Swan'' in 1996, and the subsequent dissolution of their contract with Capitol Records the following year, they continued recording in 1997 while without a record deal and worked sporadically until the completion of the album in September 2012. The album was recorded in several locations including California, London and Norway, and features contributions from most of the band's original members, including their late violinist Will Glenn, who died from cancer in 2001. The album also features Hope Sandoval's Warm Inventions partner Colm Ó Cíosóig, while the late Bert Jansch performs guitar on the song "Spoon." Upon its release, ''Seasons of Your Day'' received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who complimented its overall production and quality of songwriting. "Common Burn"/"Lay Myself Down" was released as the lead single from the album on October 31, 2011 digitally, while a limited edition 7" vinyl followed on January 24, 2012. "California" was issued as the first proper single from the album on August 20, 2013. A double A-sided 7" vinyl of "Seasons of Your Day"/"Sparrow" was released through Rough Trade Records on November 4, 2013. The album was followed by a non-album single, "I'm Less Here" on Record Store Day 2014. The album charted at a career-high position of number 24 on the UK Albums Chart, while also peaking at number five on ''Billboards Independent Albums Chart. The band promoted the album with a fourteen date North American tour, with a European tour expected to be announced in 2014. ==Background and recording== Although an official press release indicated that material found on the album was recorded from 1997 onwards, several interviews conducted since then indicate that some of the material found on the album was recorded in the early 1990s. The Long Ryders guitarist Stephen McCarthy believes his credit for performing pedal steel guitar on "Lay Myself Down" stems from a session he played with the band in the early 1990s. McCarthy, who auditioned to be a member of Mazzy Star in 1990,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=One Nation Underground: The Story of the Paisley Underground )〕 confirmed that he contributed to the demo recording of the song around the time of his audition, and that he was later asked by Roback to re-record the part in a recording studio "nearly 25 years ago."〔 "Lay Myself Down" was performed live as early as August 1994 in The Garage in Highbury, London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mazzy Star - Lay Myself Down 1994-07-28 live London )〕 The track also features bass guitar performed by Paul Olguin, who performed bass on several tracks found on the band's debut album, ''She Hangs Brightly''. The band began work on new material following a tour promoting their previous album ''Among My Swan'' in 1997. They recorded several tracks during this period, before Capitol Records began requesting the band move towards "big name" producers. Sandoval responded by requesting to be released from their contract with the label, later stating, "It seemed record companies wanted bands to be creative because they didn't know how to manufacture underground music. We could do our own thing and go at our own pace. But that changed when major labels started wanting bands that would sell 7 million records. They had a formula. And suddenly all these people wanted to come to the studio to keep track of what we were doing and make sure we were following that formula. So we got out." "Spoon" features guitar work from the late folk musician Bert Jansch, whom the band were first introduced to by Geoff Travis in the mid 1990s, when he was asked to open for the band in The Garage in Highbury, London in 1994.〔 Sandoval confirmed that the song was finally demoed in her apartment in Hampstead in the late 1990s, saying "He came over and we had a few beers and played the song in my living room."〔 The studio version of the track was later recorded in Norway in 2000, during the same sessions where Jansch performed on two tracks from Sandoval's first album with The Warm Inventions, ''Bavarian Fruit Bread'', "Butterfly Mornings" and "Charlotte".〔 The title track contains a contribution from the band's former violinist Will Glenn (aka William Cooper), who died from cancer in 2001.〔 The band returned briefly in 2000 for a mini-tour of Europe, after which recording sessions resumed sometime in 2002 in Norway, where Sandoval's partner Colm Ó Cíosóig confirmed that he contributed bass, keyboards, guitar and drums to "maybe five tracks" found on the album.〔 Recording continued intermittently thereafter, with sessions taking place between Norway, London and California.〔 Roback has confirmed that several album's worth of unreleased material was recorded during the sessions that yielded ''Seasons of Your Day'', although Sandoval has cast doubt on whether any of this material will be released, stating that future albums will "probably" be released "once our families inherit everything after we're dead and gone," adding "() I'm sure people will hear everything."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seasons of Your Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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