Battlestar Eclectic
Sarah Torribio and her right brain. Music. Musings. Writing. Style.
Category: Music
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Such a beautiful and talented musician was lost when Jeff Buckley drowned in 1997 at age 30. As a result of his untimely death, he’s an icon, an anti-hero, and forever young. He was also an astoundingly talented singer, songwriter and guitarist. His voice ranges from a falsetto that purposely rivals the famously tear-jerking warble…
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My song of the day is “Here’s Where the Story Ends by The Sundays. It’s a lovely alt/indie rock song hailing from 1990 and England of the duo’s debut album “Reading, Writing and Arithmetic.” I was so dazzled by the cuteness and purity and earnestness of Harriet Wheeler’s vocals that I only just noticed how…
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What a great interview with Mike Joyce (November 6, 2025) in the Guardian! Joyce, who has just released an autobiography called “Drums,” gives an up-close description of Morrissey’s recording process. Moz liked to record in a pitch-black studio! It’s fitting. Morrissey’s memoir of a few years back had it’s good points, including a beautiful, empathetic…
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My self-care routine includes I have to listen to “Down by the Sea” off the Business as Usual album by Men at Work at least once a month. It’s is echoing, lonely, quiet, still and chill. It has a stony, hypnotic feel. It’s like a giant granite Buddha that gathers all my stress into a…
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When it comes to Tori Amos’ “Under the Pink,” forget “Cornflake Girl.” Try “Pretty Good Year,” a honey-voiced wist-fest filled with characteristically oblique metaphor. It’s like I don’t know what she’s talking about, but I do. Maybe Tori Amos’ warm, octave-straddling voice and star-spangled fingers are filling in the banks. “Pretty Good Year” is an…
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I love Alkaline Trio and the various offshoot projects of co-frontman Matt Skiba like Heavens and Matt Skiba and the Sekrets. “Dead End Girl,” of Heavens’ debut album Patent Pending, is a particularly lovely offering. The guitar in this darkwave post-punk offering builds and builds, arguably reaching a dramatic and heart-rending peak at 3 minutes…
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My song of the day is “Bound for the Floor,” a 1996 hit by Local H off their second album As Good As Dead. I just got a hankering for this catchy and angsty number, a record that is a perfect slice of licorice pizza if you like grungy alt-rock. The rhyme scheme of the…
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It was a slow burn but by the time I finished listening to “Lonely Late Nighter” for the first time, I was sold. This torch song by English singer/songwriter Adrian Borland, best known as frontman for post-punk outfit The Sound, is strumming my pain with its fingers. Accordingly, it lands a spot on my on-repeat…
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Wow! An alt-country song by Beck. I’m a bit late to the party given this is off Beck’s 2002 album Sea Change. I’m reminded of how The Rolling Stones struck out with their country-western hits “Wild Horses” and “Honkeytonk Women.” This is so slow and atmospheric. You’re not galloping across the desert, from high noon–to…