So Tonight That I Might See

Wikipedia's album article gives the UK release as September 27, 1993 and the US as October 5. The liner notes credit Sandoval, Roback, Keith Mitchell, William Cooper and Jason Yates, with Dale Everingham as engineer; we found no studio or recording dates. All songs are by Sandoval and Roback except "Five String Serenade" by Arthur Lee. Singles were "Five String Serenade" (June 1993) and "Fade into You". It reached 36 on the Billboard 200 and 68 in the UK, and the RIAA certified it platinum in April 1995.

Pitchfork's 2020 review gave 9.4 and called it a dream pop album with a gothic core, and ranked it 116th on its list of the best albums of the 1990s; Uncut gave 10 of 10, and the NME's Keith Cameron found it an even more lustrous, becalmed work than the debut. The Los Angeles Times's Steve Hochman said it may be the culmination of the Paisley Underground, while Rolling Stone's Lorraine Ali found it increasingly monotonous and Christgau called it a dud. AllMusic's Ned Raggett later called it the group's undisputed high point. "Into Dust" was never a single but reached 71 in the UK in 2009 after a Virgin Media advertisement and 47 in 2011 with a Gears of War 3 trailer.