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Baxter Dury releases his tenth studio album Allbarone via Heavenly Recordings. The album was produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence and The Machine), the first album Pauls worked on in over five years. Baxter and Paul got together in Epworths North London Church Studios in late November 2024, not long after Baxter had finished touring his last album. Their first day in the studio working on this new eighth solo album was an eye-opener for Baxter, though, and not just because of the comfortable surroundings of The Church, which has hosted the likes of Frank Ocean and Adele. Together they dreamt up Allbarone’s nine-track tour-de-force, stripping everything away and building Baxters most melodically direct, futuristic collection in intense three-hour daily shifts throughout December and January. “Its kind of a character arc that goes through the whole thing, two personalities,” he explains. “Its very critical of people, this album, whoever they are, maybe some bloke with a moustache and sockless loafers in Shoreditch or a fat old Chiswick gangster lording it up in a really comfortable middle-class part of London.” “I dont want to say its contemporary,” he summarizes. “Because I sound like a **** using that word. But it does sound really contemporary. It doesnt sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It doesnt sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. Its just something thats brand new for me. Its quite exciting, really.” Which in Baxter Dury-speak is as good as proclaiming “Im top of the world!”
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