“groovy misanthrope chips in on the endless scroll of modern life”
“Other Men’s Girls, from the 2014 album It’s a Pleasure, hinted that Baxter Dury might have found a style that would enable him to really express his voice. That style – Dury offering lugubrious spoken vignettes about lives that are, in one way or another, desperate, over a backing that was lush without being intrusive – was the sound of Prince of Tears in 2017, and it’s developed on The Night Chan”
“Stanley Kubrick once said that a film is – or should be – more like music than fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. He also believed that observation is a dying art. The parallels between Baxter Dury – whose music is synonymous with self-disclosure and character scrutiny – and Kubrick are more visible than you’d think. The Night Chancers’ conscious progression is a nod to Ku”
