Anton Barbeau
Berlin
"One of the most inventive minds in pop music today." - Louder Than War
"File in the buried treasure bin alongside XTC, Robyn Hitchcock, Julian Cope and The Bevis Frond." - Stewart Lee, The Sunday Times
"Anton Barbeau is a true contemporary psychedelic pop guru. A tireless artist with more than 20 albums published, he was born in Sacramento and currently resides in Berlin. In these years he has worked with members of XTC, Bevis Frond, Cake and The Soft Boys. His music combines psychedelia and luminous pop in the best tradition of Syd Barrett , Beatles , Robyn Hitchcock and Julian Cope ."
"Cerebral, memorable, melodic but also adventurous and inventive." - Monolith Cocktail
Anton Barbeau is one of the most insanely talented and creative people currently making music in the undercurrents in the world of music. - babysue
"If you like the cosmic rock, and love to dive into the lyrics of the songs but do not get you a trip as space, Anton Barbeau is ideal to feed your mind and awaken your next poet Beatlesque."
"Anton Barbeau is simply a genius bursting with melody, whimsy, beauty and weirdness." - Clive Dee
"Prolific, pretentious, precocious, intelligent, quirky, nasal, amusing, annoying to some, pop genius to others, and never ever boring—this, my friends, is the cumulative description of northern California's musical auteur Anton Barbeau."
—PopMatters
"He's a genius like Julian Cope" - Johnny Normal