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A Star Is Born

from Polynormal AB by Anton Barbeau

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At the last minute during the mastering of my Morgenschlager album, we decided to pull a track from the album. Mastering had been spread across two days, Thursday and Friday, with Oz Fritz in his studio up the hill from here. I spent Saturday and Sunday writing like a fiend, trying to find a more fitting song to fill the gap in the album. "Crankin Em Out" was the one, but Oz liked this one, too, and suggested maybe it should be an album closer for another record. It sits just right at the end, but I couldn't land a heaviness-rich record on such a glompy thunk. Almost, though!

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A Star Is Born

In the skies a star is born
Elsewhere in the cosmos dies another
A billion years, a blip, and then we’re gone
Moaning on our death bed, “Hear me, mother…”
I’ve lived a life as best I could
Clueless, clumsy, never quite enlightened
Hear me, mother…best I could
I’d do it all again bit less frightened

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from Polynormal AB, released November 24, 2023

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Anton Barbeau Berlin, Germany

Anton Barbeau plays "pre-apocalyptic psychedelic pop." He's a Taurus, born in Sacramento and now living by a canal in Berlin. He's made something like 30 albums and has worked with members of XTC, The Soft Boys, the Bevis Frond, Cake, the Loud Family, Elf Power and
the Corner Laughers. Julian Cope got him stoned in Croydon once. His new album, Manbird, ain't bad at all.
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