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The long-awaited arrival of ‘Peace Meal’ [Royal Oakie] in 2019 felt like a rebirth, in that the songs are the fruit of a communicative collaboration between this plane of existence and another; stuff of the cosmos that Sweeney has been personally tasked to deliver. Meanwhile, breezy melodies and buoyant beats showcase what was musically Sweeney’s most pop-oriented album to date: “a smorgasbord of influence: there’s Kinks and T. Rex, there’s Mungo Jerry and the smallest touch of Latin vibes; waltzy beats. Above all, the lyrics are clever, kooky and funny and god bless him, they’re interesting... Sweeney writes songs with a connective energy about them. This Sweeney has soul” (TheBayBridged).

With his notebook handy and his microphone on standby, Sweeney is back on the proverbial horse with a 2021 EP ‘Critique of Nature’ featuring his top-streaming song to date in ‘Natural Force’, which was lauded as a “stylish synthpop success” that “hits it out of the park” (Obscure Sound).  Sweeney's 4th full-length album, a dedication to his late daughter Rishi, is slated for release in November 2022, with another LP already in the can for 2023.

Paul Dither (real name: Mike Hiegemann) is a composer, producer, and sound designer. The multi-instrumentalist has been involved in numerous theatre and film productions as well as in various live performances. He also translated manuals for Dave Smith Instruments/Sequential and collaborated with Nick Batt, Dave Cloud, John JJ Jones, Mark Tinley, and Tony Youngblood amongst others.

Singer-songwriter from Wolverhampton. Somehow sending soulful songs into the airwaves. :)

"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

Songwriter, vocalist, producer, arranger, engineer and multi-instrumentalist.
"A lost world of honest analogue sound paired with classic pop" Also a live band called The Telmos.

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