{"id":30247,"date":"2025-11-07T05:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T10:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=30247"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:33:30","slug":"album-reviews-two-from-anton-barbeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/album-reviews-two-from-anton-barbeau\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Reviews: Two from Anton Barbeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I take a quick look at not one but two new albums from the prolific Anton Barbeau, both released on the fine Think Like a Key label\u2026<\/p>\n<p><i><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30248\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_glitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_glitch.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_glitch-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_glitch-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Glitch Wizard<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nPerhaps the least idiosyncratic release from Barbeau in some time, <i>Glit<\/i><i>c<\/i><i>h Wizard<\/i> offers up some of the most conventionally straightforward songs in his massive body of work. But that\u2019s not to say that the music fails in any way to adhere to Barbeau\u2019s high standard. There\u2019s melody in spades, along with interesting and inventive sonic touches, and is inimitable vocals out front where they belong. While he\u2019s aided and abetted by some familiar names (Dave Gregory, Andy Metcalfe, Donald Ross Skinner and more), Ant commands his customary wide array of instruments as well. Listeners whose tastes include XTC, Syd Barrett, Robyn Hitchcock and other similarly iconoclastic and creative auteurs will surely delight in Anton Barbeau\u2019s latest.<\/p>\n<p>But wait; he\u2019s not done\u2026<\/p>\n<p><i><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-30249\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_dig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_dig.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_dig-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/anton_dig-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Dig the Light<\/b><\/i><br \/>\nEmploying the talents of most every musicians and vocalist who played on <i>Glitch Wizard<\/i> but whose name does not appear above, Barbeau has simultaneously released another album. <i>Dig the Light<\/i> also shares some inside-cover art ideas and a similar list of recording locales, but beyond that, it\u2019s a decidedly different affair. The moody, mysterious and momentary \u201cMoondust Hallelujah\u201d opens the set. From there\u2019s it\u2019s off on a tasty and distorted glam rock trip with \u201cDogstar.\u201d The Bowie-esque cracked folk of \u201cCosmic Mind Awaken\u201d is dreamy and expressive. The title track is irresistibly catchy with just enough off-kilter weirdness to satisfy those who want something outside the ordinary.<\/p>\n<p>As fine as <i>Glitch Wizard<\/i> is \u2013 and it will surely rank high on longtime fans\u2019 best-of-Ant lists \u2013 the edge goes to the slightly stranger <i>Dig the Light<\/i>. But dedicated fans \u2013 a group in which I proudly claim membership \u2013 will want, need and treasure both.<\/p>\n<p>But wait again!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t have them in hand yet, but in addition to <i>Glitch Wizard<\/i> and <i>Dig the Light<\/i> \u2013 both released in July \u2013 Anton Barbeau has two more new albums in 2025. <i>Klaust<\/i> is, apparently, the third record of a trilogy begun with those previous two. And three extended synth tracks make up <i>Musik for Entities 2<\/i>; Ant\u2019s written description of the album recalls Brian Eno\u2019s <i>Discreet Music<\/i>. We shall see (and hear).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I take a quick look at not one but two new albums from the prolific Anton Barbeau, both released on the fine Think Like a Key label\u2026 Glitch Wizard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,57,62,65],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-30247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-wave","category-psych","category-rawk","category-review","tag-anton-barbeau","cat-50-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\/30247","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=30247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30250,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30247\/revisions\/30250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}