ANTON BARBEAU 

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Anton Barbeau represents the Sacramento chapter of that nameless coterie of enduringly reliable, acid-tinged singer-songwriters that includes XTC's Andy Partridge, Robyn Hitchcock, Julian Cope and the Bevis Frond's Nick Saloman. His new album bathes beautifully constructed, thoughtfully arranged songs in a fading psychedelic sunshine, and it would be many casual consumers' album of the year if only they got to hear it. 'Alphalpha Bhang' is a snake-charming slow burn, while 'Boncentration Bamps' is lysergicly incoherent and inexplicably affecting. Why buy George Martin's rebooted Beatles? Classic guitar pop isn't dead. Four stars. - the Sunday Times

SPIN Magazine, August 09 - "The 100 Greatest Bands You've (probably) Never Heard". "More than two decades after pop-savvy acid-eaters like John Lennon and Syd Barrett cracked the cosmic egg, this Sacramento songwriter slithered forth with a pure distillation of lyrical jabberwocky, brain-burrowiing melody and mystical psych-guitar fuzz."

Born in Sacramento, California, now living in Cambridge, England, Anton Barbeau is known alternately in various circles around the globe as psych-pop troubadour, cosmic shaman and "the banana guy." He has shared the stage with the likes of Robyn Hitchcock, Robin Williamson, Weezer, Emmy the Great and Japanese noise gods Mono. He's recorded with the Bevis Frond, the Loud Family, Kimberley Rew, Stornoway, Sharron Kraus and various members of CAKE. In 2010 he recruited Andy Metcalfe and Morris Windsor (Soft Boys/Egyptians) to be his backing band. The trio have begun recording their debut, tentatively titled "Euphidia Clit."

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