The album also features Hope Sandoval's Warm Inventions partner Colm Ó Cíosóig, while the late Bert Jansch performs guitar on the song "Spoon".

"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.

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.

Sandoval responded by requesting to be released from their contract with the label,[5] later stating, "It seemed record companies wanted bands to be creative because they didn't know how to manufacture underground music.

[2] The band returned briefly in 2000 for a mini-tour of Europe,[8] after which recording sessions resumed sometime in 2002 in Norway,[9] where Sandoval's partner Colm Ó Cíosóig confirmed that he contributed bass, keyboards, guitar and drums to "maybe five tracks" found on the album.

"[1] The band made their return two years prior to the album's release, with the issue of the double A-sided single "Common Burn" / "Lay Myself Down" in 2011.

[16][17] In response to the album leaking online on September 14, Seasons of Your Day was streamed on various sources including NPR,[18] The Guardian,[19] CBC Music[20] and Pandora Radio.

"[36] Ben Cardew of NME said that Sandoval's voice "remains an indescribably beautiful thing", commenting that the record's sparsity allows the songs to "seep into [your] bloodstream", awarding the album a score of 8 out of 10.

[33] Matt Collar of AllMusic praised the band's "[new] world-weariness and maturity", noting that Roback's guitar work displays "a much more pronounced country and blues influence", before summarising that the album "is everything you could want, finding Mazzy Star older and wiser, but still as dreamy as ever.

Maybe the hooks are pushed aside, much like on Among My Swan, [...] but every bit of slide and pedal steel guitar, harpsichord, every softly bowed string and every sleepily drawled vocal is in its exact right place," awarding the album four-and-a-half stars out of five.

[40] Similarly, Mark Richardson of Pitchfork opined that "unlike recent records from other bands that made their names in the 1980s and 90s, they haven't lost a thing in the interim", commenting that the album is "rendered so perfectly that it's almost hard to believe.

[41] Joe Goggins of The Line of Best Fit said that "there's nothing particularly new here, nothing cutting edge, but there is beautiful, considered, genuine song-writing, and to greet such art with any kind of disdain would be nothing short of a travesty," awarding the album 8.5 out of 10.

[42] At Alternative Press, Jason Heller told that "the band have only gotten smokier and dreamier", yet wrote that "Mazzy Star may not have evolved much over the past 17 years, but Season Of Your Day proves they never, ever need to.