{"id":11072,"date":"2016-06-28T05:45:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T09:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2016-06-28T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T13:32:52","slug":"album-mini-review-anton-barbeau-magic-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/28\/album-mini-review-anton-barbeau-magic-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Anton Barbeau &#8212; Magic Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8935\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/barbeau_magic1.jpg\" alt=\"barbeau_magic1\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/barbeau_magic1.jpg 280w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/barbeau_magic1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/barbeau_magic1-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01CKFW4XI&amp;asins=B01CKFW4XI&amp;linkId=8342cbbbaccc9f5c520fe10be5263123&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Often swimming in the quirkier end of the power pop pool, the prolific <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/02\/anton-barbeaus-traveling-magic-act-part-1\/\"><strong>Anton Barbeau<\/strong><\/a> most recently made a pair of albums fronting <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/11\/album-review-three-minute-tease\/\"><strong>Three Minute Tease<\/strong><\/a>; there he applied his own personal spin to the music, bending the sound made by <strong>Robyn Hitchcock<\/strong>&#8216;s former band mates (<strong>Andy Metcalfe<\/strong>, <strong>Morris Windsor<\/strong>) toward his own unique aesthetic. <em>Magic<\/em> Act is more of an assortment, with solo-made tracks alongside tunes featuring Metcalfe, Windsor, <strong>XTC<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/album-review-the-dukes-of-stratosphear-the-complete-and-utter-dukes\/\"><strong>Colin Moulding<\/strong><\/a>,<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/10\/album-review-the-corner-laughers-poppy-seeds\/\"><strong> The Corner Laughers<\/strong><\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/18\/the-corner-laughers-let-the-music-do-the-selling\/\"><strong>Karla Kane<\/strong><\/a> and other like-minded musicians. After <i>Antronica<\/i>, his delightful 2014 side trip into krautrock electronica, <i>Magic Act<\/i> finds the Sacramento native (now based in old East Berlin) putting his melodic skills on brilliant display. The musical polymath&#8217;s adventurousness \u2013 plus an ever-present psychedelic haze \u2013 informs all twelve tracks, but Barbeau&#8217;s inerrant knack for tunefulness makes <i>Magic Act<\/i> supremely accessible. And that&#8217;s the cleverest trick of all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often swimming in the quirkier end of the power pop pool, the prolific Anton Barbeau most recently made a pair of albums fronting Three Minute Tease; there he applied his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8935,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,57,62,65],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-11072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-psych","category-rawk","category-review","tag-anton-barbeau","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-57-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11079,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}