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It's a Pleasure Image
Metascore
70

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  • Summary: This is the fourth full-length release for the son of British rock artist Ian Dury.

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Other Men's Girls
Other men's girls think I'm in love, think I'm in trouble In a swimming pool, where other fools, dare to drown them And I don't wear make up And I... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Q Magazine
    Oct 29, 2014
    80
    Throughout, the sense of a man finding his own path is convincing. [Nov 2014, p.111]
  2. Uncut
    Nov 11, 2014
    80
    Baxter's brilliance is varied. [Dec 2014, p.75]
  3. 70
    The popsmith has never seemed to win over hearts in a big way, for whatever reason. It's A Pleasure is unlikely to change that, sadly. However, those that have stumbled across his ma-a-assive talent will fall deeper in love.
  4. 60
    It’s a shame the saccharine musical backing too often makes it hard to empathise.
  5. Oct 22, 2014
    60
    Each track employs a different variation on a naïve, early Depeche Mode synth-pop beat, over which a keyboard melody bloops and Dury whispers forlornly about a missed romantic opportunity or existential let-down. [Nov 2014, p.92]
  6. Oct 27, 2014
    60
    It’s A Pleasure ultimately comes across as slight as its deliberately platitudinous title, but Dury remains an intriguing talent who’s worth following.
  7. Oct 22, 2014
    60
    His father's son through and through, Baxter Dury not only sounds a bit like his old man Ian, he is attracted to a similarly chintzy production that pushes attention away from the arrangements and to his words. This is especially true on 2014's It's a Pleasure.
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