Former Mazzy Star frontwoman Hope Sandoval sang the deathless 90s slow jam ["Fade Into You"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWvEXChflEE ""Fade Into You"" ), which means she'll live forever in wedding-playlist form. And her guest appearances on the Jesus and Mary Chain's ["Sometimes Always"](http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1332103 ""Sometimes Always"" ) and the Chemical Brothers' ["Asleep From Day"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj7F0KU367s ""Asleep From Day"" ) are also the stuff dreams are made of. But Sandoval hasn't released an album of her own since Bavarian Fruit Bread, the underrated 2001 debut from her band Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.
On September 1 15, she'll make her grand return, when Nettwerk releases Through the Devil Slowly Softly, the first album in eight years from Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.
Sandoval wrote the album with her partner in the band, My Bloody Valentine's Colm Ó Cíosóig. Judging by the track "Blanchard", which you can stream and download below, we're in for another album of sexy, gauzy, reverbed-out slowcore, with Sandoval's voice floating above the layers of softly strummed guitar like a desert apparition. Beach House fans, take note.
The Warm Inventions will tour North America and Europe later in the year. A press release also mentions that Sandoval has recorded a guest vocal for a forthcoming Massive Attack album, which could be just incredible. Also, Sandoval promises something nobody expected: A new Mazzy Star album. Says Sandoval: "It's almost finished, but when it will be coming out, I don't know."
