Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 12th September, 2025

Tracklist:

1. Allbarone
2. Schadenfreude
3. Kubla Kahn
4. Alpha Dog
5. The Other Me
6. Hapsburg
7. Return Of The Sharp Heads
8. Mockingjay
9. Mr W4

It was Sunday June 28th, 2024 and Baxter had just stopped from 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 Epworths 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 eighth solo Baxter Dury album 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 Allbarones nine-track tour-de-force, stripping everything away and building Baxters most melodically direct, futuristic collection in intense three-hour daily shifts throughout December and January.

Its kind of a character arc that goes through the whole thing, two personalities, he explains. Its 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 dont want to say its contemporary, he summarises. Because I sound like a cunt using that word. But it does sound really contemporary. It doesnt sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It doesnt sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. Its just something thats brand new for me. Its quite exciting, really.

Which in Baxter Dury-speak is as good as proclaiming Im top of the world!