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I Thought I Was Better Than You: Rough Trade Edition - Blue Vinyl + CD

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]!)
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Release Year 2023 - 1 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Heavenly / Pias
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Product Catalogue No HVNLP214RT
Music Genre NME Indie/Alternative Artists, Indie, 00s Artists, Male Solo
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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

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1. I Thought I Was Better Than You Mixtape 21:44


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Recording Artist Baxter Dury
Product Title I Thought I Was Better Than You: Rough Trade Edition - Blue Vinyl + CD
Product Information Baxter Dury I Thought I Was Better Than You: Rough Trade Edition - Blue Vinyl + CD UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Bell + Arc, Chas Jankel, Glencoe, Humphrey Ocean & The Hardy Annuals, Ian Dury, Kilburn & The High Roads, Loving Awareness, Skip Bifferty, The Blockheads, The Planets (Steve Lindsey)
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