Baxter Dury Announces 'Allbarone' Album With Title Track Video

05-06-2025

(PIAS) Baxter Dury is pleased to announce his ninth studio album Allbarone which will be released on Heavenly Recordings on September 12. The album was produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence & The Machine), his first album he's worked on in over five years.

It was Sunday June 28, 2024 and Baxter had just stepped off stage after 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 solo record 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.

Baxter on "Allbarone": "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. 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."

"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 summarizes. "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!"