I Thought I Was Better Than You

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Maybe the most genuine aspects of life, a life according to Baxter, the beat of incredible disingenuous confidence, of confident vulnerability, can get misconstrued as solely that – as solely a box of puzzle pieces from different puzzles that don’t flow as one, that fail to fit homogeneously. But they can all be assembled into pictures of utmost honesty. Baxter can emote remotely with a special kind of spectral humility from his nonsensical riverbank, and in turn, birth a brilliant array of truths, but so much more interesting, and inspired than wiping his snotty nose on his stripy shirt sleeve in the name of such well-worn wank mantras as ‘I’ve got a heart too, y’know?’

In March 2019 Dury appeared on the Fat White Family single "Tastes Good With The Money", also appearing in the video. [6] Dury isn’t the first songwriter to dissect the influence their parents had on their life but it certainly a fascinating concept when the work presented is a confrontation of the impact of having Ian Dury as a father. Now in his 50s, and only a few years shy of the age his father was when he passed away, Dury candidly expresses how it feels to be a “prisoner of famous parents,” and how it has affected his own lengthy career; he’s a musician with a wealth of ambition and ideas when it comes to his work that is sometimes disregarded by people expecting him to merely recreate his father’s material. “Even though you want to be like Frank Ocean / But you don’t sound like him, you just sound like Ian,” he intones on ‘Shadow’, one of the many highlights on the record.Baxter Dury unveils first single from new album 'Happy Soup' - audio". NME. 22 May 2011 . Retrieved 13 June 2021. The more that image of Pinocchio tells more lies, the more the nose grows and pokes people on the arse and gets annoyed at that; coming from the in-between of profound clarity, bohemian lyricism, and odd, psychedelic existence. Due for release June 2nd 2023 via Heavenly Recordings the album is produced by Paul White, celebrated for his work in Golden Rules and with the likes of Charlie XCX and Danny Brown. Hotly-tipped new singer-songwriters Eska and JGrrey feature in addition to Baxter’s regular vocalist Madeline Hart. Baxter Dury announces his new record 'Prince Of Tears' with the single 'Miami' ". heavenlyrecordings.com. 29 September 2017 . Retrieved 17 October 2017.

I Thought I Was Better Than You confronts what was once too much to be confronted. Some side of the self too raw to reveal and commit to the cuttings of a record. Too emotionally mountainous, too psychologically dislodging to really indulge, and divulge with people. But along came a need for a new vibe that really enticed Baxter into believing that the canvas before him was a blank slate with a few anecdotes, childhood snapshots, uncertain truths, and certain fictitious tales on the edge of both sanity and society to spray against it.What about those fabulous singles Baxter has put out? Liam…sorry Leon is one of the best pieces of music he has made; what a relief it can be king of the roost’s groove in a way that Miami was, that bruised, bloodied swagger unable to resist the tingles of the neon night, the madness of escapades in ultraviolent drama. “Leon’s pretty autobiographical. Some urban mythologising stuff. It’s also used to sort of…not expose any inadequacies but just to sort of say – awkward moments. It’s about awkward moments. But it’s a real moment. It leans into truths” tells Baxter. He’s painfully aware to caveat that, sitting on the Thames supping an afternoon lager, he is not drawing any parallels to those artists (“I don’t have the right to even begin to venture into that world, but I just kind of like a bit of that - it’s an energy,” he says). But still there’s something about Baxter’s latest, with its explorations into his personal history and delight in the possibilities of language, that makes as much sense sat next to hip hop as it does the more indie circles with which he’s more normally associated. It’s the mark of a clever musician to steal what’s required, a thief that knows its place, a kleptomaniac that doesn’t overstay their welcome in the palace of delightful, musical trinkets, to then convince everyone that what’s been stolen belongs rightfully to them, because otherwise there’s an instant whiff of something off lingering in the air like hotdog and doughnut fat falling through the tray, feeding itself through the ventilators located down some narrow alleyway behind a humongous retail park. You do indeed get a sense of being able to see it right away because you can see when people are wearing the wrong-sized pair of shoes. They look really uncomfortable.