Baxter Dury I Thought I Was Better Than You: Rough Trade Edition - Blue Vinyl + CD UK Vinyl LP
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BAXTER DURY I Thought I Was Better Than You (2023 UK/EU limited
edition Rough Trade exclusive 10-track LP pressed on Blue Vinyl - The seventh studio
album from the Musician, writer and Renaissance man whichis
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 blue exclusive sleeve with the
hype-stickered outer polythene bag complete with the picture / lyric
inner [to which the download code sticker is affixed] plus the
Bonus CD containing a 'I Thought I Was Better Than You
Mixtape' [with a 21:44 running time]!)
**Limited to 1500 Copies Only**
TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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
Maximum Security For Baxter Dury CD:
1. I Thought I Was Better Than You Mixtape 21:44
Artist - Baxter Dury (click link for complete listing)
Title - I Thought I Was Better Than You: Rough Trade Edition (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2023
Format - vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label - Heavenly / Pias
Catalogue No - HVNLP214RT (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 5400863134433
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.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - BXDLPIT816371
Related Artists - Chas Jankel, Humphrey Ocean & The Hardy Annuals, Ian Dury, Kilburn & The High Roads, Loving Awareness, The Blockheads, The Planets (Steve Lindsey).
GENRES
00s Artists, Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Male Solo.
REFERENCE
Email - sales@rarevinyl.com to contact our sales team.
RareVinyl.com Reference Number - BXDLPIT816371
SELL TO US
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**Limited to 1500 Copies Only**
TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
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
Maximum Security For Baxter Dury CD:
1. I Thought I Was Better Than You Mixtape 21:44
Artist - Baxter Dury (click link for complete listing)
Title - I Thought I Was Better Than You: Rough Trade Edition (click link for more of the same title)
Year of Release - 2023
Format - vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label - Heavenly / Pias
Catalogue No - HVNLP214RT (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info - Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 5400863134433
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.
RareVinyl.com Ref No - BXDLPIT816371
Related Artists - Chas Jankel, Humphrey Ocean & The Hardy Annuals, Ian Dury, Kilburn & The High Roads, Loving Awareness, The Blockheads, The Planets (Steve Lindsey).
GENRES
00s Artists, Indie, NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Male Solo.
REFERENCE
Email - sales@rarevinyl.com to contact our sales team.
RareVinyl.com Reference Number - BXDLPIT816371
SELL TO US
Got vinyl records, CDs or music memorabilia to sell? – Sell to us at our buying site https://vinyl-wanted.com