Baxter Dury

Six years is a long time in pop music. Until Baxter Dury, the reclusive genius of British pop music, emerged from the woodwork in 2011 with his first release in over half a decade, most had given him up for creatively dead. Luckily, 'Happy Soup' proved that Ian Dury's son had go in him yet: on the album, he weaved together the deadpan lyrics and psychedelic sensibilities that had made his first two LPs so much fun to listen to. We've only had to wait half as long for his fourth release, 'It's a Pleasure', led by the winning disco-pop single 'Pleasure'.