Baxter Dury – It’s A Pleasure (2014) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Baxter Dury will be releasing his new album ‘It’s a Pleasure’ through [PIAS] Le Label. The album was produced by Baxter, Dan Carey (Franz Ferdinand, Tame Impala & Bat For Lashes) and mixed by Craig Silver (Arctic Monkeys, Arcade Fire & The Horrors).  The fourth album from Baxter, his first for [PIAS] Le Label, features Babyshambles’ Drew McConnell on bass and Patrick Walden on guitar.  This album was hard work to make but now I like it lots. Male inadequacy is a hard subject to repackage in the form of skeletal Berliner music but here I’ve proved that’s possible. Making this album I worked in New York, Brussels, Paris but you can’t hear a trace of any of them, only the faint cries of Chiswick. It could be the soundtrack to a film about a doomed submarine.

His father’s son through and through, Baxter Dury not only sounds a bit like his old man Ian, he is attracted to a similarly chintzy production that pushes attention away from the arrangements and to his words. This is especially true on 2014’s It’s a Pleasure, his fourth record in a decade and evidence that he’s no longer concerned about whether audiences draw comparisons between him and his father anymore. Indeed, “Palm Trees” glides by on a bit of cod Euro-disco that can’t help but recall Do It Yourself and much of It’s a Pleasure follows suit, favoring tightly sequenced drum machines warmed by cooing female backing vocals. The neo-new wave vibe here is often appealing — it hits an apex on the vaguely paranoid “Whispered,” a minor-key, slyly propulsive gem — and if Dury could stand to enunciate with precision, his marble-mouth mumble nevertheless works as texture, turning this record into a peculiar, distinctive oddity that seems as if it’s all about words when it’s really all about feel. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:
01. Pleasure
02. Palm Trees
03. Other Men’s Girls
04. Police
05. Lips
06. Whispered
07. Petals
08. White Men
09. Wintery Kisses
10. Babies

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