Such is the degree of mystery Mazzy Star seem to cultivate around their work that one musician contacted for this article wasn’t even aware that his contribution to Seasons Of Your Day had been used; not surprising, perhaps, as he recorded it nearly 25 years ago. That’s what it was. “They’re not your normal rock ‘n roll people,” explains Geoff Travis, whose label Rough Trade distributed Mazzy Star’s 1990 debut, She Hangs Brightly. The band are also releasing a new EP later this year. “Halah” is the lead-off track on Mazzy Star‘s 1990 debut LP, She Hangs Brightly and is an almost perfect encapsulation of what the band was about and their unique sound. Into Dust: Roseblood: Had a Thought: Though down-tempo, the song has a certain bouncy, inviting charm about, it but ends up concealing some rather dark lyrics beneath its tuneful exterior. Meanwhile, he and Sandoval continued working on Mazzy Star material. It was David and Kendra, kind of acoustic, and Will [Glenn, Rain Parade’s keyboard player] was playing violin and I was playing piano.”. Before I Sleep. “The majority of that record was recorded in San Francisco at a place called Hyd Street Studios,” reveals Roback. And close my eyes, still I see your surprise. Certainly it helped that guitarist Dave Roback‘s creative and tasteful playing proved to be a perfect foil for Sandoval‘s sultry voice. “We started to write a lot of songs together, that’s really what got us – we really got into that.”, “I asked David to send me some of his guitar ideas,” says Sandoval. Bands like that. but you know that you may have been "so wrong, so wrong," so there's no choice, you submit to their will to get that love that you need. Reinforcing how long Roback and Sandoval have been working on these songs, Rain Parade keyboard player Will Glenn is also credited on the album: he died in 2001. © 2021 Uncut is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. “I’m lucky, I’m very, very lucky,” she says. Mazzy Star lyrics - 47 song lyrics sorted by album, including "Into Dust", "Fade Into You", "Lay Myself Down". Starcastle. She Hangs Brightly… oh man this song rules. “Happy Nightmare Baby was a very electric record,” explains David Roback. Or after a record is completed? Brightly Beams lyrics. It was released on May 21, 1990 by Rough Trade Records and re-released by Capitol Records later in the year. After two EPs, Clay Allison quietly morphed into Opal, who recorded two EPs, Fell From The Sun and Northern Line, and an album, 1987’s Happy Nightmare Baby. “We were very orientated towards playing live at that point. The Doors. “I’m proud of the music, and I’m proud of our friendship,” she replies after a typical hesitation. Halah Lyrics: Well I think I see another side / Maybe just another light that shines / And I look over now through the door / And I still belong to no one else / Maybe I hold you to blame for The second album So Tonight That I Might See followed in 1993. But it was interesting. Once our families inherit everything after we’re dead and gone, I’m sure people will hear everything…”, Click here to listen to Uncut’s Paisley Underground playlist. I had a project called Going Home with my good friend Sylvia Gomez, and when we met David and Kendra they knew that we had this little music thing we were doing, and they were interested in it. We never really stopped. I didn’t get the impression that she particularly enjoyed the live thing. “Of all the bands on the scene – the Dream Syndicate, the Salvation Army, Green On Red, even the Bangs who became the Bangles – all of us were coming from a more punk rock background. Give You My Lovin' 8. “The Beatles made a strong impression on me. Shine on Brightly. “We’re not so concerned about the outside world,” explains Roback. That’s really what it was. “There was constantly music on the radio,” he remembers. i … She Hangs Brightly: 12. "Halah" lyrics. “I think we thought maybe we’d release something, but we weren’t really so preoccupied with it. Continuing his 75th birthday celebrations, we present the deluxe expanded Ultimate Music Guide to Bob Marley. Before I close the … I thought David was shy. that you left. Takes me down deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down. We just kept writing and recording.”. Again, he’s quite quiet, speaks quite quietly, but very much alive, great sense of humour. The first track "Halah" was also released as a single. There are countless other appearances in films and TV shows – most recently, it’s been covered by J Mascis – but perhaps the song’s most incongruous appearance is in Paul Verhoven’s sci-fi shoot-em-up, Starship Troopers. Surely don't stay long I'm missing you now. Even before recording the album, Roback had already set in motion another musical project – Clay Allison, formed with his girlfriend and former Dream Syndicate vocalist, Kendra Smith. Or in the studio? She Hangs Brightly Lyrics: She hangs brightly from the tree / Wonders what she's done to me / I'm aware of your game / Come and watch me / Watch me come … The song Fade Into You turned into a hit … The Who, New York Dolls, Fugazi, Peggy Seeger, Scritti Politti, Bob Dylan, Marvin Gaye, Serge Gainsbourg, Israel Nash and Valerie June. Language : ADD FRENCH TRANSLATION. It was during a tour that they were doing with the Jesus And Mary Chain, so I got a call from David asking me if I would fly out to New York and finish the tour. Every album reviewed! “I’ve always loved music,” begins Hope Sandoval. We talked to her and she seemed nice, but I got the feeling that she was particularly mesmerised by Kendra. She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down Takes me down deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down It stays down Sour in truth Lies of lovin' The story's cheap She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come … "She Hangs Brightly" is a departure from the Mazzy playbook. Ride It On: 11. “Oh, yeah. “We had a couple of days off, and David did the first Clay Allison gig with Kendra at the Pyramid Club. Despite the single “Fade Into You” from Mazzy Star‘s sophomore LP, 1993’s So Tonight That I Might See, blowing up on nascent alternative radio, the pair have continued to keep a low-profile and largely avoid fame. “To their credit, Capitol worked ‘Fade Into You’ for about nine months in radio, which I’ve very rarely seen in America,” says Geoff Travis. “They were quite different,” remembers former Cocteaus bassist, Simon Raymonde. “He sent me maybe five or seven beautiful rhythm guitar ideas. Top Mazzy Star Lyrics Fade Into You Flowers In December Cry, Cry Common Burn Happy Blue Light Blue Flower Still Cold She Hangs Brightly Before I Sleep Related Mazzy Star Links Mazzy Star wiki I'm Sailin video Mazzy Star twitter Mazzy Star facebook Maybe I hold you to blame for all the reasons. What do I think connected us? It is its own world unto itself.”, “I was always working with David,” says Hope Sandoval, as she looks back on the years between Mazzy Star’s third album, Among My Swan, and Seasons Of Your Day. That’s how I started working with his band.”If the creative union of Roback and Sandoval was borne out of pragmatic necessity – to finish the Jesus And Mary Chain tour – it began to take on a more solid shape in early 1988. Yeah, and sort of mysterious. Did I have lyrics for them? But the Rain Parade weren’t like that. “We all ended up at UC Berkeley at the same time,” explains Steven Roback. Roback, meanwhile, produced tracks for Beth Orton in the late Nineties and relocated to Norway, where he became involved with Norwegian artists and musicians including Mari Boine, Helga Sten and Guri Dahl, making experimental music for films and installations. Very sad news overnight about the passing of David Roback. The album had been on sale for a year when Rough Trade went into receivership. The band played a mixture of tuneful shoegaze and almost country-western: a sound that continues to sound fresh to this day. No, I didn’t. The songs became Mazzy Star’s debut album, 1990’s She Hangs Brightly. Along with Hope Sandoval, his creative partner in Mazzy Star, Roback comes across as elusive, often cryptic. We’re engaged in the stories of each individual song. Quite a contradiction in a way. Yes, it's got the type of wistful, calmly brokenhearted tracks you'd expect from Hope Sandoval & Company, but it's livelier, and shows more emotional and stylistic range, than you might expect. “David was quite serious, quite thoughtful, didn’t say an awful lot. It’s got a remarkably lifelike statue of Charlie Chaplin in the entrance, and a pool designed by David Hockney. “We like to get a live version we like. “We’re planning to start touring around November in the US and we’ll come out to Europe and do a few shows,” she explains. David asked us if we’d like to go into the studio and make a record. To support the album, Mazzy Star toured America in 1990 supporting the Cocteau Twins. “He said, ‘I mean, just in theory, maybe some day, not right away, maybe down the line, I just want to see what you thought about.’ So I said, ‘Hey, it sounds really fun, I’d love to play with you so give me a call when you’re ready.’ That was the last time I spoke to David Roback.”, Wynn has known Roback for 30 years, from the earliest days of their careers among the Paisley Underground movement, when Wynn was frontman for the Dream Syndicate and Roback the co-singer and guitarist with the Rain Parade. “I remember the first Rain Parade tour, when we were in New York City, playing CBGBs with Green On Red,” pinpoints Steven Roback. “I remember the first time I met them in person,” says Geoff Travis. A list of lyrics, artists and songs that contain the term "brightly" - from the Lyrics.com website. David Roback and Hope Sandoval talk us through their illustrious career. Blue Flower. “Halah” is the lead-off track on Mazzy Star‘s 1990 debut LP, She Hangs Brightly and is an almost perfect encapsulation of what the band was about and their unique sound. 1993 also saw the band settle in London around the time they released their second album, So Tonight That I Might See. And I suggested that maybe we write together.”, “We were performing a lot of Opal material and one day we just thought, let’s just start something completely new and different, and that was Mazzy Star,” continues Roback. Various Artists. “I grew up with older brothers and sisters who were into music, played The Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Aretha Franklin. Ghost Highway. She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down. Asked, for instance, what the first song was that they recorded for the album, Roback replies: “Well, we really weren’t working on Seasons Of Your Day as it exists now, we were just recording various things. That’s what really appeals to us. It’s the origin of the Rain Parade in a way, and the origin of David’s focus on having a lead singer in a hypnotic, melodic context, the vision he had that ultimately ended up evolving into Clay Allison, Opal and Mazzy Star.”, After graduating, David Roback returned to Los Angeles, where he formed the Sidewalks with former school friend Matt Pucci, a guitarist and singer. David gave me a cassette tape with that and then said, ‘Will you come and do some more recording with us later, we’re going into a real studio.’ I went and the only thing I can remember him saying to me was, ‘Can you do it like you did on the demo.’ I do recall David seeming like he didn’t know who I was, which was kind of confusing to me because we had played quite a bit. Be My Angel: 2. Characteristically, the question of how they’d follow-up a hit single and million-selling album never particularly seemed to concern Roback or Sandoval. There was often a bit of tension between them. I quite liked him. She hangs brightly from a tree Wonders what she's gonna be I'm aware of her game Come and watch me, watch me come again Takes me down, deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's aware of the game “I’m excited about it. And you're leaving before my time. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly lyrics. Lyrics She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down Takes me down deep and… View full lyrics Comments for She Hangs Brightly lyrics. But quite an odd individual, really, David.”. “I don’t know,” she says after a pause. She Hangs Brightly is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Mazzy Star. The album was released by Rough Trade – who had previously handled the UK distribution for Happy Nightmare Baby. Continuing the soft-focus, slow motion jams of its predecessor, the album featuring the band’s only hit single – a dusty, lilting ballad, “Fade Into You”. They invited Steven Roback to join a few months later, on bass and vocals. As Wynn remembers it, Roback said to him, “I’ve been thinking, I want to do some sort intense, jammy band like Cream or something like that, and I’d like to do it with you.” Wynn had long admired Roback, and readily agreed. “She would come to Norway, or we would work in London, or we’d work in California,” he explains. Hope was super shy. Love. “I went to their rehearsal studio,” she says. Live, things happen in the moment.”, Among the musicians credited on Seasons Of Your Day are longstanding collaborators drummer Keith Mitchell and keyboard player Suki Ewers – both Opal veterans – and the band’s old friend, Bert Jansch. She Hangs Brightly song lyrics by Mazzy Star official. “Halah” is… an almost perfect encapsulation of what [, almost 20 year hiatus to record their fourth LP. Meanwhile, Roback and Sandoval’s interviews with Uncut are conducted via Skype, peppered with awkward pauses and elliptical responses. “They sold a million copies of So Tonight That I Might See, which when you think about it today seems an extraordinary number.”. Their ethereal debut, She Hangs Brightly, also went against the grain when it was released in 1990. Browse for Brightly Beams song lyrics by entered search phrase. Who didn’t love that?”. The beginning of the All About Eve saga!”. Though down-tempo, the song has a certain bouncy, inviting charm about, it but ends up concealing some rather dark lyrics beneath its tuneful exterior. “So for maybe an afternoon, I did some demos. “I work with some of the most amazing artists.” “Incredibly violent. By way of a tribute, here’s my career-spanning Mazzy Star interview which originally appeared in Uncut’s October 2013 issue, around their then-new album, Seasons Of The Day. Live music in the studio.”. Uncut charts the uncanny journey of the pair, from The Rain Parade to the quietly triumphant comeback, Seasons Of Your Day. Search. I just thought they were speaking from a world I really wanted to be part of.”, Roback’s earliest collaborators included Steven – his younger brother by three years – and Susanna Hoffs, whose family lived across the street. Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly Album Lyrics; 1. The outside world is really not on our minds, in so far as the music is concerned. It’s also one of their more polished compositions: compare it to something like ‘Be My Angel’ from 1990’s She Hangs Brightly, a track that uses a near identical chord progression and some of that bluesy slide guitar, but has a rougher, almost improvisational feel to it. I don’t think for him, either. It’s difficult, but it’s there.”. People play your music in a bar. When she left, Roback turned to Sandoval. He grew up in Brentwood, on the west side of Los Angeles. Is it when she’s writing songs? “It’s a very internal process that we’re involved in. "She Hangs Brightly" is a departure from the Mazzy playbook. “I’d gone into the studio with David’s band, Opal,” explains Sandoval. Halah: 9. It announces the band's trademark effect with haunting guitar work and lyrics, and Hope Sandoval's disengaged vocals. She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down. Taste Of Blood. Login . Presenting the Ultimate Music Guide to the visionary genius of The Fall. Powered by the beguiling and gently lilting vocals of Hope Sandoval, two-piece Mazzy Star were one of the very best acts of the early 90s. Someone asked me recently if we were perfectionists, and I think perfection in music is really a dull thing, the imperfections of music are what give it character. We didn’t really communicate a lot other than just enjoying each other’s music. She Hangs Brightly. She’s very queenly, in a way. Blue Flower: 4. Choose one of the browsed Brightly Beams lyrics, get the lyrics and watch the video. Seventeen long and sad years after Mazzy Star last released an album, Hope Sandoval and Dave Roback are back, magnificent and unchanged. She Hangs Brightly is the debut studio album by American dream pop band Mazzy Star. “They asked me to bring my steel guitar down,” he remembers. Usually what I do is I write my vocal melody over guitar parts and then I come up with lyrics.”. I'm Sailin' Give You My Lovin' Be My Angel. We were working on other things.”, Certainly, Sandoval has kept the highest profile since Among My Swan, contributing vocals to songs by the Jesus And Mary Chain, the Chemical Brothers, Death In Vegas, Massive Attack and Bert Jansch, and running a successful second band – Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions, with My Bloody Valentine drummer, Colm Ó Cíosóig. It stays down Sour in truth Lies of lovin' The story's cheap. Mazzy Star Lyrics "Halah" Well I think I see another side Maybe just another light that shines And I look over now through the door ... "She Hangs Brightly" (1990) Halah. “But I think my instant enthusiasm took him aback,” says Wynn. Pink Floyd and the Byrds. Takes me down deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down. “I wasn’t writing, I was just singing the songs that he had written and it wasn’t really working out for me. For all its strengths, She Hangs Brightly is best summed up by its opening track, the quietly enfolding “Haleh”: a definitive Mazzy Star composition characterised by gently rolling rhythms, guitar reverb and Sandoval’s husky vocals. Roback stayed with the Rain Parade precisely long enough to record a single – 1982’s “What She’s Done To Your Mind?” – and an album, Emergency Third Rail Power Trip, the following year. Song Meaningthis song is about being in a relationship and then getting back into it, and the power struggle involved. Taste of Blood: Mazzy Star Lyrics provided by SongLyrics.com. If it can be considered a barometer of the song’s success in the mainstream, “Fade Into You” has appeared in no less than five separate episodes of the CSI franchises. David is a bit more of an elder statesman when it comes to music, but with immaculate musical taste. Looking back over a quarter of a century of Mazzy Star, I ask Sandoval what’s she most proud of. "i know the road that you sent me" there is only one option, you can do want your other says, and you probably like it in a way, but it's so restricting. I met David and Hope together, they were sitting beside the side of the pool. “We were just experimenting with sounds and I was writing a lot of songs back then, singing with that band.”, The Rain Parade found themselves sharing both concert bills and artistic sensibilities (psychedelia, Nuggets, Big Star, the Velvet Underground) with a loose collection of bands on the fringes of the Los Angeles club scene during the early Eighties. Check the record! Baby won't you change your mind? The STANDS4 Network ... She Hangs Brightly. 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Organ, lots of steel pedal notes spiraling away in the background, disappearing like shooting stars, sort of a druggy, doomy type vibe. He also acted – as himself – in Olivier Assayas’ film, Clean, for which he wrote four songs sung in the film by actress Maggie Cheung. Her mum would bring her. It’s Spanish. And when is she at her happiest? “We were recording up there and a little bit in Los Angeles as well, we were back and forth between the two cities, between Berkeley and Los Angeles. “But David, he wasn’t that easy to know.”, It’s tempting to ask, does anyone really know David Roback? Ghost Highway: 6. In 1993, they added to their line-up Jill Emery, former bassist with Hole, who remained with them until 1996. In … Guest appearances rated! It was quite a shock, coming from Hole, with an aggressive Courtney Love. What happened? “In Los Angeles at the Roosevelt Hotel. Before I Sleep: 3. The last part of our Ultimate Record Collection: David Bowie trilogy is here now. She Hangs Brightly is the debut studio album by American alternative rock band Mazzy Star. While going silent and many presuming that Mazzy Star had broken up after their third LP, the dark and brooding Among My Swan, the band suddenly elusively reappeared after an almost 20 year hiatus to record their fourth LP, 2013’s Seasons Of Your Day. We’re really doing it in our own world for ourselves. “Probably. Sometimes she’d just storm of stage. Probably slightly more in thrall to David at that point, than later when she exerted her own individuality. She’s a really good soul, Hope. They’re nice, they’re gratifying, but at the same time they can be difficult and emotional. Clay Allison established the template for Roback’s subsequent work – a kind of dreamy psych-folk. Subscribe to Uncut today and never miss an issue. “I think they really do live in their own worlds. She couldn’t come to our shows because she was too young. Mazzy Star’s critically praised debut album, “She Hangs Brightly,” marked her record debut in 1990. We knew that they all sounded cool on their own and in context, and we put all those instruments together to see what we could get.”, “I think that there was some interesting music going on then, a lot of guitar interaction and electric organ,” says David Roback. Every phase, there’s happiness in it, there’s enjoyment in it, but there’s also torture.”, David Roback has been refining a melancholy strand of American Gothic – steering a course between third-album Velvet Underground and The Doors of “The End – since the late Seventies. We liked each other’s music. It was released in 1990 on Capitol, after the demise of David Roback's previous band Opal. I'm Sailin' 10. It wasn’t very successful, but it did receive a fair amount of airplay on alternative rock radio stations. “Of all the people in that scene, I’ve stayed close to just about everybody in one way or another over the years,” claims Wynn. We really were just experimenting with different pieces of recording, as we still do mostly. It's like I told you I'm over you somehow. Name/Nickname: Comment: Other Mazzy Star song lyrics. I’m looking forward to getting together with everybody and playing some of the old songs, and having dinner and wine, catching up with everybody.”, “It hasn’t changed. What we’d been doing before that was very acoustic, and then we thought we’d make it very electric, so we went from being somewhat acoustic to very electric, like Happy Nightmare Baby.”, One admirer of both Roback and Smith’s work was a young music fan, Hope Sandoval, who Steve Wynn remembers “used to come to Dream Syndicate soundchecks, in like ’82, when I think she was like 14 or 15. Ride It On. I wasn’t quite sure what he was doing. They were happy just to be floating and gentle and trippy. Organ, lots of steel pedal notes spiraling away in the background, disappearing like shooting stars, sort of a druggy, doomy type vibe. “We really weren’t working on Seasons Of Your Day as it exists now, we were just recording various things.”, Sandoval is quick to echo Roback: “We didn’t record songs for Seasons Of Your Day, we titled the collection of songs after one of the songs.”, “In the studio, I’m usually playing guitar or keyboards,” continues Roback. The songs became Mazzy Star’s debut album, 1990’s She Hangs Brightly. “The Rain Parade were as Paisley as the Paisley Underground got,” remembers the Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn. That’s the origin of a lot of things. She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Free: 5. Lyrics She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down Takes me down deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down It stays down Sour in truth Lies of lovin' The story's cheap She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down. She also had a lengthy relationship with white noise merchant’s Jesus and Mary Chain‘s William Reid. She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down Takes me down deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down It stays down Sour in truth Lies of lovin' The story's cheap She's the winner of her game Come and watch her She hangs brightly from the tree Wonders what she's done to me I'm aware of your game Come and watch me Watch me come down Takes me down deep and wide Pulls me through to the other side She's the winner of her game Come and watch her Watch her come down It stays down, sour in truth Lies of lovin', the story's cheap She's the winner of her game Hope was very quiet. Steven McCarthy believes his credit on the album stems from a session he played with the band in the early Nineties. “I’m happy with all of the different aspects of it,” she replies instantly, her voice taking on an unexpected urgency. Yes, it's got the type of wistful, calmly brokenhearted tracks you'd expect from Hope Sandoval & Company, but it's livelier, and shows more emotional and stylistic range, than you might expect. The debut album She Hangs Brightly was released in 1990. She's the winner of her game Come and watch her There’s loads of songs,” she confirms. “We’re not so concerned about the outside world,” admits Roback. Questions about the length of time it’s taken to record Mazzy Star’s new album Seasons Of Your Day – released a full 17 years after its predecessor – aren’t answered as fully as you’d like. Sandoval in particular is known for her low-key spotlight averse persona, frequently hiding in shadows during live gigs and while fronting her solo band, Hope Sandoval and the Warm Intentions. “Everyone was so reserved. Strangely, their quietness matched Hole’s abrasiveness, just on a different level.”. I was asked to do some live shows [with Opal] because Kendra didn’t want to be the front person, and I think it just got really difficult for her. It was released on May 21, 1990 by Rough Trade Records and re-released by Capitol Records later in the year. “We sat down with David and Hope and we made a deal with Capitol to move them from Rough Trade to Capitol to help avoid the bankruptcy,” explains Travis. It stays down Sour in truth Lies of lovin' The story's cheap. It’s not uncommon to hear your music in any context, or anybody’s music for that matter you could be walking down the street or you could, you know, be at a funeral, and somebody’s driving by playing the Beach Boys.”. Give You My Lovin: 7. The Sidewalks started out playing early Stones and Merseybeat covers before evolving, over a period of around six months, into the Rain Parade. It was never dull, that’s for sure.”, The period following She Hangs Brightly was one of transition for Mazzy Star. About She Hangs Brightly. Mazzy Star released their first album, She Hangs Brightly, in 1990.Their follow-up, 1993's So Tonight That I Might See, The first album from Mazzy Star, She Hangs Brightly, was released in 1990.The follow-up, 1993’s So Tonight That I Might See, featured the track "Fade Into You," which is still widely regarded as Mazzy Star's biggest hit.. “David was key in setting out the vision for the band,” admits his brother. It’s a very typical musician thing in a way, in that they’re so obsessed with music and doing what they do, that it kind of removes them slightly from normal social mores.”. I think of her as the Queen of East LA: softly spoken, but definite and intelligent and bright, lovely. "Blue Flower" was released as a single and reached number 29 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.