View basket “Live Taste” has been added to your basket. I Thought I Was Better Than You Baxter Dury SKU: 22.00 22.00 £22.00 £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Heavenly Released Date: 2nd June 2023 Buying Format: 1LP 1LP Coloured Vinyl Buying Options Choose an option1LP1LP Coloured VinylClear I Thought I Was Better Than You quantity Add to basket ReserveBack Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Musician, writer and Renaissance man Baxter Dury returns with a brand new album, ‘I Thought I Was Better Than You,’ his seventh studio album. 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. 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’. Artist Baxter Dury Genre Rock And Pop Label Heavenly Buying Options 1LP , 1LP Coloured Vinyl Format 1LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings So Much Money Aylesbury Boy Celebrate Me Leon Crashes Sincere Pale White Nissan Shadow Crowded Rooms Glows Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Baxter Dury and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Baxter Dury Mr. Maserati – Best Of Baxter Dury 2001 – 2021 Rock And Pop | Heavenly | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 10th June 2022 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baxter Dury Mr. Maserati – Best Of Baxter Dury 2001 – 2021 £19.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Heavenly SKU: HVNLP201 Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 10th June 2022 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Baxter Dury The Night Chancers Rock And Pop | PIAS | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 20th March 2020 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Baxter Dury The Night Chancers £17.00 Genre: Rock And 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