Baxter Dury - 'Allbarone'
Baxter Dury returns with a fresh electronic twist on new single “Allbarone”.
Baxter Dury is back with his first piece of work since the release of his last album I Thought I Was Better Than You in 2023. Since then Dury has toured extensively across Europe including a landmark appearance at Glastonbury last year.
Simultaneously to this single release, he announces his ninth studio album of the same name, a nine-track record written towards the end of 2024 with highly acclaimed producer and songwriter Paul Epworth.
It was after his performance in Glastonbury that he met Epworth, who has previously worked on some of the most prestigious albums of the 21st century including Silent Alarm by Bloc Party, A Certain Trigger by Maximo Park, and even some songs from 21 by Adele.
The two agreed to meet again in Epworth’s North London Church Studio after Dury finished touring his last record, together composing nine tracks for what looks to be the most melodically direct, futuristic collection of songs by the highly acclaimed English songwriter.
This lead single reveals a lavish new sound which projects Dury’s classic rough and inventive song writing into a refined production enveloped in early 2000s electronic influences, never losing that rough lyrical edge which he is well known for.
“This is the first track that Paul Epworth and I made and it quickly established why it was a good idea that we were working together”, he explains, “It's a song about sitting in the rain outside an All Bar One contemplating why what just happened, happened in the way it did."
On the lyrical direction of the upcoming album, Dury added: “It’s very critical of people, 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”.
Allbarone will be out via Heavenly Recordings on the 12th of September, but until then keep your eyes and ears peeled for at least one more single release from what looks set to be Dury’s most exciting musical lunge.
Words by Jay Cohen
