{"product_id":"baxter-dury-i-thought-i-was-better-than-you-1","title":"BAXTER DURY - I Thought I Was Better Than You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff0000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLP - Black Vinyl\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"122\" data-end=\"671\"\u003eMusician, writer, and Renaissance man Baxter Dury released his seventh studio album, \u003cem data-start=\"127\" data-end=\"160\"\u003eI Thought I Was Better Than You\u003c\/em\u003e, on June 2, 2023, via Heavenly Recordings. The album was produced by \u003cstrong data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"368\"\u003ePaul White\u003c\/strong\u003e, celebrated for his work in \u003cstrong data-start=\"397\" data-end=\"413\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eGolden Rules\u003c\/strong\u003e and with the likes of \u003cstrong data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"451\"\u003eCharlie XCX\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-start=\"456\" data-end=\"471\"\u003eDanny Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e. Hotly tipped new singer-songwriters \u003cstrong data-start=\"509\" data-end=\"517\"\u003eEska\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong data-start=\"522\" data-end=\"532\"\u003eJGrrey\u003c\/strong\u003e feature in addition to Baxter’s regular vocalist \u003cstrong data-start=\"586\" data-end=\"603\"\u003eMadeline Hart\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"1588\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"673\" data-end=\"706\"\u003eI Thought I Was Better Than You\u003c\/em\u003e 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 to 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, \u003cstrong data-start=\"1356\" data-end=\"1368\"\u003eIan Dury\u003c\/strong\u003e. As one of the album centrepieces – \u003cem data-start=\"1405\" data-end=\"1413\"\u003eShadow\u003c\/em\u003e – agonisingly puts it: “But no one will get over that you’re someone’s son\/Even though you want to be like \u003cstrong\u003eFrank Ocean\u003c\/strong\u003e\/But you don’t sound like him, you sound just like Ian.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1590\" data-end=\"2311\"\u003eThe record also serves as a kind of extension to Baxter’s 2021 book, \u003cem data-start=\"1663\" data-end=\"1678\"\u003eChaise Lounge\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem data-start=\"1968\" data-end=\"1979\"\u003e‘Tricksy’\u003c\/em\u003e reappear in \u003cem data-start=\"1992\" data-end=\"2009\"\u003e‘Aylesbury Boy’\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-start=\"2014\" data-end=\"2035\"\u003e‘Pale White Nissan’\u003c\/em\u003e, 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 \u003cem data-start=\"2191\" data-end=\"2251\"\u003e‘Fuck you Leon…\/You stole the sunglasses and I got busted’\u003c\/em\u003e and a desire for \u003cem data-start=\"2269\" data-end=\"2310\"\u003e‘Porridge in the morning and be normal’\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenly Recordings","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black Vinyl.","offer_id":56718219608409,"sku":"SDZ-02913","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/Baxter_Dury_-_I_Thought_I_Was_Better_Than_You_-_CD_bc096fe1-3504-4c63-be4b-d4d247802845.jpg?v=1781214155","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/baxter-dury-i-thought-i-was-better-than-you-1","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}