Interview - Baxter Dury

Baxter Dury by Tom Beard

Across a 25-year career and 9 studio albums, Baxter Dury has carved out a singular place in British music.

His unmistakable vocal delivery, a kind of idiosyncratic sprechgesang, has become his calling card, steeped in a weary, world-wise tone that is unmistakably him.

Yet while his voice has remained a constant, Baxter Dury has long been adept at shaping soundscapes that serve his character-driven vignettes, moving between sparse, noirish backdrops and lusher, groove-heavy arrangements.

With his latest album Allbarone, he makes his boldest stylistic leap yet.

Here, the Londoner leans into the pulse of dance music and the textures of electronica, building a shimmering, restless framework for his storytelling resulting in a fizzing cocktail of loosely connected tracks gathered under what he himself dubs a, ‘Romantasy’: a quasi-dystopian space where irony, melancholy and euphoria collide.

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