Baxter Dury - Mr. Maserati - Best Of Baxter Dury 2001-2021 (2022)

Baxter Dury with a 20 year Best Of called Mr Maserati 2001 to 2021 which showcases two decades of Baxter Dury's idiosyncratically louche music, a universe of late-night London meet-ups, shuffling basslines and comedown disco tunes, all run through with a wry bleakness and sweet love of humanity. Mr Maserati collects tracks from across Dury's six albums, plus a new song D.O.A. Baxter Dury on new track: "It's a kind of provincial nod to the music I got into during lockdown because my son Kosmo was playing it - Frank Ocean, Tyler the Creator and Kendrick Lamar. I became obsessed. They're embracing everything - sexuality, politics, all of it - and I find that inspiring"
Mr Maserati showcases two decades of Baxter Dury's idiosyncratically louche music, a universe of late-night London meet-ups, shuffling basslines and comedown disco tunes, all run through with a wry bleakness and sweet love of humanity. Mr Maserati collects tracks from across Dury's six albums, plus a new song D.O.A.
"I don't really think I warrant a 'best of' album," says Dury. He's wrong, though, and the selection here is stellar: the oldest song, Oscar Brown, is a wistful spooky slice of pop that can somehow put you in mind of The Carpenters and Spiritualized and haunted arcade games and a rotten sadness at the heart of England; a couple of years later we've got Cocaine Man, with its grim-sweet singalong chorus, a signature Dury surrealist wide-boy monologue and a half-submerged hook that does sound a bit like the Bloodhound Gang; Leak At The Disco, a provincial horror story from 2011's Happy Soup, opens with Club Tropicana birdsong and a sweet guitar pulse and ends, after a shitty Chiswick night out, with Apocalypse Now helicopters; there's the sinister bontempi-ish serenade of Palm...

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