Baxter Dury releases his tenth studio album Allbarone via Heavenly Recordings. The album was produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence and The Machine), the first album Paul’s worked on in over five years. Baxter and Paul got together in Epworth’s North London Church Studios in late November 2024, not long after Baxter had finished touring his last album. Their first day in the studio working on this new eighth solo 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. Together they dreamt up Allbarone's nine-track tour-de-force, stripping everything away and building Baxter’s most melodically direct, futuristic collection in intense three-hour daily shifts throughout December and January. "It’s kind of a character arc that goes through the whole thing, two personalities," he explains. "It’s 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 don’t want to say it’s contemporary," he summarizes. "Because I sound like a **** using that word. But it does sound really contemporary. It doesn’t sound like a Harrods hamper band made it. It doesn’t sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s quite exciting, really." Which in Baxter Dury-speak is as good as proclaiming "I’m top of the world!"