Son of Ian Dury, you would imagine some kind of wild thing fiending for attention. BAXTER DURY is far from it. A mellow gentleman with just enough wit to make him stick out from the crowd without being loud, Braxter released his first LP at age 30, which for many isn’t very rock ‘n’ roll. The benefit is that “Len Parrott’s Memorial Lift” shines through its non-posture. Its dark, melancholic pop-folk songs have received special treatment from Portishead members Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley. So they are simple and yet quite edgy. If that wasn’t enough, Baxter’s writing although often chaste, is carried by this warm, gritty, almost-friendly-but-not-quite type of voice that makes you press “rewind” more than you would have imagined. “Floor Show” comes out in 2005 with the help of Uxley and Richard Hawley (Pulp). And then six years go by before we can listen to a new record, “Happy Soup” which sees the troubled urban troubadour lightening up.
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