BBC Music Magazine
“The tracks that comprise Starsailor aren’t so much songs as incantations of lust, ecstasy and oblivion.”
Released in November 1970, Tim Buckley’s fifth album, Starsailor, found the singer-songwriter embracing free jazz and experimental classical music to create a record like no other – not only in his body work, but in the whole of rock music.
Buckley cast aside the restrictions of conventional song structure and embraced the wild possibilities of his extraordinary vocal range – it resulted in the purest expression of his talent and musical curiosity.
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