Battlestar Eclectic
Sarah Torribio and her right brain. Music. Musings. Writing. Style.
Category: indie rock
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>>last post <<next post My song of the day is “In My Heart,” some lovely indie/alt rock by Constant Smiles. Led by Ben Jones, the group is a music collective based out of Massachusetts, more specifically Martha’s Vinyard. It beckoned to me from the first note. There’s are splendid dark-wave keys laying down an eerily…
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My song of the day is “You Are Loved Eternally” by Jenny O. I know. Comparisons can be odious, but they are also often useful. I’d characterize this tune as the Primitives meets Ravi Shankar-inspired George Harrison. It’s sure to open your heart chakra with a crowbar. This mantra, “You are loved eternally,” has never…
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My song of the day is “Feeling Okay.” You might not know it from the big sound but Best Coast, which was formed in California in 2009, is a duo. It consists of guitarist and singer songwriter Bethany Cosentino and multi-instrumentalist Bobb Bruno. I’m shit at naming what genre the indie rock/alt rock music I…
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I’m doing this somatic healing thing where I listen to “Fields of Fire” by Big Country on repeat. It’s challenging but the results are already worth it. The band, the internet tells me, hails from formed in Dunfermline, Scotland. My Song of the Day comes off of the alt-rock group’s 1983 album The Crossing. I’ve…
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>>last post <<next post My song of the day is “Perfectly Aligned” by Milo Greene, a band I got to see open for Foster the People a number of years ago. This indie-pop quartet, which formed in Los Angeles in 2010, has three singers that are, indeed, perfectly aligned. This particular tune is mellow, sweeping and…
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>>last post <<next post My song of the day is “By the Wire” by Olympics. Olympics is an absolutely splendid band that has every ingredient required to draw me in like a moth to the flame. Lead singer Kevin Lujan has a keening voice in the same phylum as Morrissey and the guitars have a…
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>>last post <<next post Very cool. There’s a Brian Eno-esque feel to the production, reminiscent of Talking Heads, all unexpected notes and mixed emotions, and a bit of David Burns sound to the vocals. The guitar ranges from epic fret-ambling a la Dire Straits to moody darkwave strum. My song of the day is by…
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>>last post <<next post My song of the day is “Baby Sky,” a new single by Tokyo-based shoegaze band Stomp Talk Modstone. It’s some of first dabbling into Japanese indie-alt since I had a flirtation with alt-rock girl group The Go-Bangs back in my teenage years, when listening to newfound music by Rodney on the…
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A melancholy groove. There’s something cinematic about this offering by Nature TV. My song of the day is their “One for the Road” Nature TV is a 4-piece indie rock band from UK, Brighton, more specifically, whose members self-identify as “door-to-door heartbreak salesmen.” –Sarah Torribio >>last post <<next post Listen to more songs of the…
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I love this dark-tinged but momentum-filled song of regret. Singer/songwriter Connie Constance, whose real name is Constance Power, has a deliciously pretty voice made hip by a bullet-fast delivery and an English accent I’m told by Wikipedia was crafted in Watford. The melodic accompaniment is a bright and driving electronic soundtrack that I imagine is…