We hardly do more British than these two, whose new albums delight us. Baxter Dury, 48, has been pursuing an exciting career for almost twenty years. Elder son of working class herald Ian Dury, author of Sex & Drugs & Rock'n'roll , he casts his nonchalant gaze and biting irony on our world. His new album, The Night Chancers , is perhaps his most successful.
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On a chic electro instrumentation clad with classy strings, the forty-something poses a serious spoken-song in the manner of Gainsbourg, one of his masters. The use of bass, mixed very far, evokes in particular the album Melody Nelson . His source of inspiration this time is the wildlife that populates Parisian nights, which this Francophile is fond of.
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Actor or voyeur, he does not choose sides in this sometimes crude description of the nocturnal world. On I'm Not Your Dog , he dialogues with a feminine and lascivious voice which gives him explicit "I am not your dog" . On Slumlord ("Merchant
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