Glitch Wizard by Anton Barbeau–Album Review
Glitch Wizard by Anton Barbeau–Album Review
Has anyone ever felt it? That precise, trembling instant when a new enigma reveals itself—sudden, blinding, like a shooting star that blazes once and vanishes forever into the infinite mystery of the cosmos. The universe that cracks itself out of its nutshell by sheer force and releases a static that purrs like waves of joy into the universe. An arrow flying in the summer sky. Pure happiness, sealed in the magic of music. Sweet like the coming of summer.
That’s the moment Anton Barbeau arrives.
Just like Peter Ivers once was—a myth wrapped in melody—Anton is the riddle of now. Though the music you hear is new, he has been around for a long time now. An old soul orbits this plane, an American from Sacramento, California, carried on the paisley winds of psychedelic vibration. His music channels the cosmic sounds of 1967–Forever Changes and Sgt. Pepper’s-era sweethearts plucking your vinyl grooves with long nostalgic dreams out of the void. He is a Taurus – the mystic in the garden. Calmly tending to his tea and petals that grow like albums on a glorious landscape. He has made over 30 of them and doesn‘t intend to stop.
His sound?
It isn’t heard.
It’s discovered.
Enter his newest cosmic odyssey – Glitch Wizard. Inside the dream, he has gathered 13 cosmic fellows, each playing a vital role in his freshly conjured psychedelic dreamscape. He has names for everyone. He calls them one by one. We travel through spaceways on a Glitch Wizard astral plane. Both the song title and the concept of the album, as Anton describes is “a dense, glitching tapestry of psych-pop and krautfolk that’s less an album and more an emotional exorcism set to music—perfect for listeners who enjoy their pop with a side of existential crisis and a sprinkle of interdimensional travel. Heading our way through we are being taken “Off the Hook” but not yet adrift and lost in space, because tracks like “Almost Om“ keep us afloat in our woolly orbit, and the strange journey days end with “A Pattern Forming“, leaving us waiting…just for another day.
Karen Eng
His voice? There’s something I call “naïve treble”—a term I coined a long time ago while searching for the artists I love the most. This is not to suggest immaturity but to capture that rare, bright honesty found in only a few voices. It’s a kind of unfiltered clarity like sunlight hitting a bubble. Anton’s vocals convey a pure emotional tone, evoking the off-kilter charm of Jonathan Richman, the sweetness of Peter Ivers, and Gary Numan’s distinctive android croon. You might hear the gentle shimmer of The Cleaners from Venus, the sincerity of Jimmy Whispers, or the reverb-mystery of Sean Nicholas Savage. And the landscape of Gardens & Villa, never wanting to part time but always clinging for more. This isn’t retro—it’s interdimensional travel.
Will he enter the dream forever? We‘ve followed our wizard Anton Barbeau through the ages – and he has only improved. Or perhaps it’s truer to say that he’s always been great. Albums like these leave us wanting more, always anticipating the next unraveling of this enigma’s inclinations and worldview. It feels like there are thousands of them.
Karen Eng
And yet—why do we still listen? Because it’s coming anew, friends. He has tuned the perfect crowd and settled in the right orbit. The album dropped in the summer of 2025—but the vibrations ripple like the 60s. The same way Beatlemania swept the nations and the Stones rocked the world, this scene—this energy—is circling back. The inner revolution Jim Morrison once spoke of? It’s happening again, through new waveforms and new prophets.
Anton Barbeau is leading the charge.
He is putting the old back in the new–a revolution around the sun. The glitch is intentional. The wizard is real. He has crafted and tested his spell, and, like an alchemist, brought magic back into the world. The world has once again become infinite and continues turning the wheels of time with the newest psychedelic sounds.
He is the riddle.
He is the sound.
He is Anton.
Catch him before he vanishes back into the groovy mist.
Glitch Wizard is out now.
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