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Jessie Atkinson
16:06 19th November 2019

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Wordsmith and musician Baxter Dury has announced plans for his next album The Night Chancers. The news comes with an excellent, brand new single 'Slumlord', and accompanying visuals. 

'Slumlord' is another disco-flecked electronic track topped by Dury's clever, scummy poetry. Like Dury highlight 'Miami', this new cut benefits from abrupt, staccato guitar and bulging bass. The matching video sees the vocalist dance and swagger around a typical flat placed in a light box studio. See the visuals; hear the new sounds:

'Slumlord' will feature as track number two on the brand new album The Night Chancers, which is due 20 March 2020 via Heavenly Recordings. Co-produced by Arctic Monkeys and John Grant collaborator Craig Silvey, the new one was recorded in West Hampstead's Hoxa studios this summer.

On the new album, Baxter said: “Night Chancers is about being caught out in your attempt at being free, it’s about someone leaving a hotel room at three in the morning. You’re in a posh room with big Roman taps and all that, but after they go suddenly all you can hear is the taps dripping, and all you can see the debris of the night is around you. Then suddenly a massive party erupts, in the room next door. This happened to me and all I could hear was the night chancer, the hotel ravers”.

The Night Chancers Tracklisting:
1. It's Not Your Dog
2. Slumlord
3. Salvia Hog
4. Samurai
5. Sleep People
6. Carla's Got a Boyfriend
7. The Night Chancers
8. Hello, I'm Sorry
9. Daylight
10. Say Nothing
 
Baxter Dury will also embark on his most ambitious UK tour to date. See him:
 
APRIL 2020
17- Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
18 - Glasgow, St Luke's
19 - Hebden Bridge, Heavenly
21 - Cardiff, Tramshed
22 - London, Kentish Town Forum
23 - Birmingham, Institute
24 - Manchester, Academy 2
25 - Bristol, SWX
26 - Brighton, Concorde 2
29 - Paris, Gaite Lyrique
30 - Paris, Gaite Lyrique
 
MAY 2020
02 - Brussels, Les Nuits Botanique
03 - Amsterdam Zonnehuis
04 - Hamburg, Mojo
05 - Berlin, Kesselhaus
06 - Cologne, Gebaude 9
 
The Night Chancers will be released via Heavenly on 20 March 2020. 

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Photo: Tom Beard