"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