Cocteau Twins, Super Furry Animals, The Beatles, Tori Amos, The Sundays, David Bowie, Radiohead, Supergrass, The The, Dead Can Dance, Bjork, The Czars, Air, Underworld, Depeche Mode, Blur, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Peter Murphy, Elliott Smith, Gus Gus, Ian Brown, My Bloody Valentine, Leftfield, Led Zeppelin, Massive Attack, Lush, Slowdive, Morrissey, The Smiths, Porcupine Tree, Smashing Pumpkins, Richard Ashcroft, Stevie Wonder, This Mortal Coil, R.E.M., Love and Rockets, Robin Guthrie, Belle and Sebastian, Eva Cassidy, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Elvis Costello, Goldfrapp, Kate Bush, Daniel Lanois, Doves, Dada, Louis Prima,
"The songs just get better and better and now we have finished ten of them and it seems like a really rounded album, taking you on a journey around her mind, which seems to reach out and touch you and demand to be listened to."
-Robin Guthrie
"A bountifully talented singer with lovely pipes...Barker is excellent when whipping up that sphinx-like, layered cloud-of-sound dreampop mystique that Guthrie's band birthed."
-The Big Takeover
"perhaps the 'most beautiful album of the year'"
-Backagain.de
"...a darkwave impelled new weird artist...a new breed of hipster who represent(s) what is culturally significant and now....very strong songwriting and impeccable control over her considerable vocal skills. And this is her debut?"
-Morbid Outlook
"....She's a space age Karen Carpenter... [Mountains and Tumult is] A fabulous debut and one that heralds the possibility of a major artist in the making."
-Zeitgeist-scot.co.uk
“A large green meadow, where different colored flowers swab, the wind gently moves the grasses; and in the middle... a woman with long hair and flowing robes, perhaps a daisy wreath into (her) braided hair and romps on the lawn like a little child. These are the first associations with “Mountains and Tumult”... that can be drawn.”
-elektrauma.de
“American music has never sounded as good as California’s Annie Barker... hats off to Annie as this is no shoegaze tribute album, it’s obviously her own work with her own personality and stamp all over it.”
-Shaddersonline.com
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Mountains and Tumult is Annie Barker's debut album with production and instrumentation by Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins and Violet Indiana fame. This album is a blend of Dream Pop production with solid pop and rock song structures and thought provoking lyrics that reach out and demand to be listened to.
“She was singing before she could speak,” says Annie’s mother who put her in piano lessons at the tender age of three. She spent her school years training her voice in classical, jazz and rock ensembles as well as in musical theatre. Annie grew up in Los Angeles and worked in film, television and theatre where Annie’s training as an actor gave her an opportunity to delve deep into her emotional life and to begin the exploration that found its expression in the powerfully emotive lyrics of her debut album.
Learning to play many of the instruments you hear on the album, building a studio from scratch, learning music production, the music business, manufacturing ethics and design Annie organized the production of every aspect of the album from start to finish and began her own independent record label, Beautiful Revolution Records, to release Mountains and Tumult. When she and Robin Guthrie met, the fusion of her solidly independent project and his art and wisdom exploded into a multi-layered original sound.
One can hear all of Annie’s influences synthesized into this album. She is a lover of Brit Rock and spent years learning the music of The Beatles, David Bowie, Tori Amos and The Super Furry Animals, among others. The essence of the British sound permeates this album. However, Annie’s work is not a copy of any band. It is an original blend steeped in the flavors of the deeper music of the scene – music with something to tell you.
Thank you very much for da Link Up & Sharing the music Nice to meet you through cyberlink! Luv your tunes & keep up da Great Work! Wishes you All da Best in 2009! Enjoy your Week!
people have always said that there is good and evil in this world. symmetry. everything has it's opposite. but... no body ever predicted Euthanasia & Acupuncture would come around to send that theory spiraling into disarray. :)
Everything is pleasing to the senses around here!! BIG ups! Keep doin' what ya love!!!
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I've never been to england, but i'm about to go this fall with my music (I am also currently in LA) and I was wondering if you had any tips as to where to go?
Here's a sampler of our music, although the way it is set right now, the first track is a little promo PSA for a show that we're playing tomorrow night. But everything after that is music. Lemme know what you think though. You seem like a lady of good judgement and taste :)
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