Childhood memories in casual hip hop bohemian style.
Son of pub-rock proto-punk Ian Dury, Baxter has carried the family tag with him since the beginning of his career. At first he found it tiresome (which is why the first few albums sounded very different from his father), then he made a virtue of necessity by playing the Dury sound more casually than Ian could.
Now, at 51, he plunges into the reflective phase: After the autobiographical childhood memories “Chaise Longue”, an album is now being released on which he uses individual scenes for song templates. Most of them date back to when he was growing up in the town of Aylesbury and Papa Ian went from art teacher and bar rocker to pop star.
As usual, Dury tells his stories with the help of his chanting between Cockney and Parisian bohème, guest singers provide the melodies at his side, many songs are determined by a subtle hip-hop influence – i.e. the music that the breakdancer and graffiti boy listened to as a teenager . No one else handles their childhood traumas as casually as Baxter Dury.