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Baxter Dury I Thought I Was Better Than You - Pink Vinyl UK vinyl LP album (LP record)
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Musician, writer and Renaissance man Baxter Dury returns with a brand new album, I Thought I Was Better Than You, his seventh studio album and 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.
I Thought I Was Better Than You marks a new era for Baxter, and with this new era comes a new character. “Faux- confrontational,” Baxter calls him. Here, not only is he recounting his childhood, but he’s also reckoning with it. Instead of just swinging at his past blindfolded with a baseball bat, he talks openly about the toxic cocktail of being born into unfortunately fortunate circumstances, with a persuasive surname but no structure or sense of responsibility with which reap the rewards of it. “Really, it’s about being trapped in an awkward place between something you’re actually quite good at, and somebody else’s success.” That ‘somebody else’ being his dad, Ian Dury. As one of the album centrepieces – Shadow – agonisingly puts it: “But no one will get over that you’re someone’s son/Even though you want to be like Frank Ocean/But you don’t sound like him, you sound just like Ian.”
The record also serves as a kind of extension to Baxter’s 2021 book, Chaise Lounge, in which he winningly recounted the story of his unique childhood. Not only does he expand the language of the book, using words to paint disconnected images rather than to string sentences (a kind of cockney hieroglyphics), but he often revisits moments within the book. Characters like ‘Tricksy’ re-appear in ‘Aylesbury Boy’ and ‘Pale White Nissan’, for example, but mainly it’s the abstracted tales of a young Baxter, troubled and in trouble, a victim of circumstance, straddling between a world of ‘Fuck you Leon…/ You stole the sunglasses and I got busted’ and a desire for ‘Porridge in the morning and be normal’.
A1. So Much Money
A2. Aylesbury Boy
A3. Celebrate Me
A4. Leon
B1. Crashes
B2. Sincere
B3. Pale White Nissan
B4. Shadow
B5. Crowded Rooms
B6. Glows
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| Condition : |
This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). We buy items as close to Mint condition as possible and many will be unplayed and as close to new as you could hope to find. Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed. Click here for more info. |
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| Year of Release: |
2023 |
| Artist: |
Baxter Dury (click here for complete listing) |
| Title: |
I Thought I Was Better Than You (click here for more of the same title) |
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| Format: |
vinyl LP album (LP record) |
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| Record Label: |
Heavenly / Pias |
| Catalogue No: |
HVNLP214C |
| Country of Origin: |
UK
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| Language: |
Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description. |
| EIL.COM Ref No |
BXDLPIT816336 (quote this reference in any e-mails, letters, faxes or phone calls to help identify this item) |
| Barcode : |
5400863119652 |
| Genres: |
00s Artists, Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Male Solo
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| Related Artists: |
Chas Jankel, Humphrey Ocean & The Hardy Annuals, Ian Dury, Kilburn & The High Roads, Loving Awareness, The Blockheads, The Planets (Steve Lindsey) |
| Complete Stock List: |
Baxter Dury |
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| Alternative Names: |
None |
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limited edition 10-track LP pressed on <FONT COLOR
="#FF1493"><B>Pink Vinyl</B></FONT> - The seventh
studio album from the Musician, writer and Renaissance man
which is produced by Paul White and finds him joined by
vocalists Eska and JGrrey in addition to his regular vocalist
Madeline Hart and also serves as a kind of extension to
Baxter’s 2021 book, Chaise Lounge, in which he winningly
recounted the story of his unique childhood. The unplayed
vinyl comes issued in the mirrored picture sleeve comes with
the picture / lyric inner [to which the download code sticker is
affixed] in an hype-stickered outer polythene bag) )
