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Baxter Dury is pleased to announce his tenth studio album “Allbarone”
which will be released on Heavenly Recordings on September 12th
2025. The Album was produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence & The
Machine) his first album he’s worked on in over five years. The Album
will be available on CD, Standard Black Vinyl & Exclusive Venetian
marble blue.
It was Sunday June 28th, 2024 and Baxter had just stopped from a
rapturously received set on The Park Stage at Glastonbury festival. After
towelling himself down, a familiar figure approached him backstage. It
was Paul Epworth, the lauded producer / songwriter whose creations
have draped themselves across the airwaves of the 21st Century more
successfully than other Briton.
They agreed to meet back in Epworth’s North London Church Studios
in late November, not long after Baxter had finished touring his last
album. Their first day in the studio working on this new eighth solo
Baxter Dury 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 (“incredible place, all this
glistening fruit and catered sushi, I felt like the bloke from Trading
Places, stuffing it down my sleeves.”).
Together they dreamt up Allbarone’s nine-track tour-de-force, stripping
everything away and building Baxter’s most melodically direct, futuristic
collection in intense three-hour daily shifts throughout December and
January.
“It’s kind of a character arc that goes through the whole thing, two
personalities,” he explains. “It’s 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 don’t want to say it’s contemporary,” he summarises. “Because I
sound like a cunt using that word. But it does sound really
contemporary. It doesn’t sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It
doesn’t sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of
all. It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s quite exciting, really.”
Which in Baxter Dury-speak is as good as proclaiming “I’m top of the
world!”
