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Nov 2, 2017The 10 tracks disappear in a brisk 28 minutes, as if to say, ‘Chin up, mate, get on with it’. A heartbreak record--done the British way.
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MojoOct 25, 2017Equally comparable to Sleaford Mods' savage lo-fi and Leonard Cohen's fatalist poetry, Prince Of Tears is an outright triumph. [Nov 2017, p.94]
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Q MagazineOct 25, 2017Casually unique and an unbounded joy to listen to, it's the quintessential Baxter Dury album. [Nov 2017, p.105]
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Oct 25, 2017Though it’s short and sweet, the 10 tracks that make up Dury’s fifth album are cinematic in scope and yet laser focused.
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Dec 6, 2017All of this is familiar, so what counts on Prince of Tears is execution, and from top to bottom, it's one of his strongest albums, benefitting from his assurance and lack of nonsense.
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Oct 31, 2017Sounding a bit bare at first, it may take a few spins for Prince of Tears to reveal its appeal but it shows the younger Dury (Baxter is the son of famous rock 'n' roller Ian Dury, of Ian Dury and the Blockheads) is a talented songwriter in his own right.
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UncutOct 25, 2017A suite unreliably narrated by a character named Miami. ... The album is a wittily wrought soundtrack of his delusions. [Dec 2017, p.25]
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Oct 25, 2017By cementing his role as musical heir to the mantle of Serge Gainsbourg (if you ignore the fact that Charlotte Gainsbourg herself is a pretty worthy heir), as well as perhaps the only musical peer of Sleaford Mods, Baxter might just have succeeded in further escaping Ian Dury's long, dark shadow.