Baxter Dury has released his new album The Night Chancers today on New Music Friday, have a listen below.
“Say Nothing closes The Night Chancers with the repeated refrain ‘Baxter…loves you’, a mantra which could be taken in a number of ways, from a paternalistic distance to an up-close, overly physical encounter,” our 8/10 review opens.
“The song is the climax (sorry) to a record on which the Londoner lifts up the skirts of his hometown for us all to see what’s underneath; in a circus filled with sleazy characters, drugs and good times going bad, it’s a landscape that through a filmic lens owes more to Snatch than Notting Hill.”
“This is a place where Dury prowls, his guttural brogue like worn tyres on gravel, eyes having seen a dozen things that can’t be unseen. The last time our paths crossed was on 2017’s lairy, sweary Prince Of Tears, but whilst that was a break-up album, this is something else.”