Anton Barbeau Shares New Video for ‘Who Wants To Party?’ from New Album ‘Come Home To Me’
Anton Barbeau has released a video for ‘Who Wants To Party?’, the first single from his new album, ‘Come Home To Me’, out now through Think Like A Key, Gare du Nord and Rock Indiana.
The song arrived at an unusual point in the making of the record. Barbeau believed that ‘Come Home To Me’ was finished, but the long recording process had left him exhausted.
“I’d just finished the ‘Come Home To Me’ album and was thoroughly fried from the process,” he explains. “To blow off steam, I started work on what I was calling a “party album”, something loose, exuberant, playful, no pressure.”
The supposedly finished album, however, continued to trouble him. Something was missing, and Barbeau eventually realised that the answer was sitting among the songs intended for the lighter project.
“But the serious album kept nagging at me,” he says. “It didn’t feel complete. Then it hit me. What the serious album needed was right there on the party album. Once ‘Who Wants To Party?’ moved over to ‘Come Home To Me’, everything clicked into place.”
The recording features horn parts by Terry Edwards, the English multi-instrumentalist known for his work with Spiritualized, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave and many others. Barbeau met Edwards at an actual party and invited him to play on the track.
“It was the finishing touch the song needed,” Barbeau says, “and the footage of him in this video came from the very party where we met.”
The film was made by Julia VBHB and Barbeau and features Barbeau alongside Christy Claes, Elia Rivas and Julia VBHB, who also appear on the recording. Terry Edwards was filmed by Karen Frances Eng.
Rather than making a promotional film, they chose something deliberately handmade and slightly strange. “We wanted something loose, fun and lo-fi, organic, handmade and genuinely weird,” Barbeau explains, describing the video as “a deliberate counterpoint to the hyper-polished AI content everywhere right now.”
“The song started as an ironic tone piece about the idea of a party and somehow turned into an actual one,” Barbeau says. “Which is its own kind of joke, given that I’m not really someone who likes parties.”
‘Who Wants To Party?’ may seem an unlikely way to introduce ‘Come Home To Me’, since it sounds unlike anything else on the album and began life as part of another project altogether, yet for Barbeau that is precisely what makes it work.
“That it ended up as the first single from the album feels both unlikely and exactly right,” he says. “‘Who Wants To Party?’ sounds like nothing else on ‘Come Home To Me’, which somehow makes it the perfect way in.”
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