Baxter Dury Announces Ninth Studio Album Allbarone

Baxter Dury teams up with Paul Epworth for a sharp, satirical new album exploring modern masculinity, identity, and absurdity in British life.

Baxter Dury has announced details of his upcoming ninth studio album Allbarone, due for release on September 12, 2025, via Heavenly Recordings. The album marks a significant collaboration with celebrated producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Florence + The Machine), his first full-length project in over five years.

Allbarone is a nine-track collection that sees Dury stripping things back and building something new, a melodically sharp and stylistically bold record shaped during intense three-hour studio sessions at Epworth’s Church Studios in North London. The record will be available on CD, black vinyl, and an exclusive Venetian Marble Blue edition. Pre-orders are open now here.

The lead single and title track, “Allbarone” is out now, accompanied by a video you can watch below “It’s a song about sitting in the rain outside an All Bar One contemplating why what just happened, happened in the way it did,” says Dury. “This is the first track that Paul and I made and it quickly established why it was a good idea that we were working together.”

Describing the album as his “most melodically direct” and “futuristic” yet, Dury explains that Allbarone traces a kind of character arc, confronting class, ego, and contradictions in contemporary British life. “It’s very critical of people” he adds. “Maybe some bloke with a moustache and sockless loafers in Shoreditch or a fat old Chiswick gangster lording it up in a really comfortable middle class part of London.”

Despite his typically sardonic tone, Dury seems genuinely energised by this new chapter: “It doesn’t sound like a band made it all. Which is what I wanted most of all. It’s just something that’s brand new for me. It’s quite exciting, really.”