• Record Label: Heavenly
  • Release Date: Sep 12, 2025
Metascore
88

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. Sep 9, 2025
    100
    A nine-track tour de force laden with biting observations and curious characters.
  2. Oct 2, 2025
    90
    Baxter Dury has created that rare album that continually reveals hidden depths, both lyrically and musically. Allbarone is a richly observed record drawn from a wealth of experience studying human relationships. It also slaps.
  3. Uncut
    Sep 9, 2025
    90
    Things are really supercharged here by Epworth's electronic touch. It's a highly potent and undeniably successful combination. [Oct 2025, p.24]
  4. Sep 15, 2025
    87
    Allbarone is the next destination for Dury as an experimental artist; he’s successfully been able to capture something new with his twist on hyperpop. The result is an intriguing effort that catapults him into the future realms of pop.
  5. Sep 12, 2025
    80
    This record plays like his shot for glory, and with tracks as hooky and well-constructed as "Mockingjay" or the title track, there's no reason he shouldn't hit the big time.
  6. Sep 12, 2025
    80
    Allbarone, then, is arguably the rawest and truest manifestation of Baxter Dury yet.
  7. Sep 9, 2025
    80
    His most compelling album in almost a decade. [Oct 2025, p.131]
  8. The Wire
    Sep 9, 2025
    80
    Sometimes being broad hits just as much as a sharp observation. Allbarone is a fun balance of the two. [Oct 2025, p.51]
  9. 80
    It's a potent start, but Allbarone gets better, deeper, more engaging and – crucially – stranger with each track, with Dury’s half-muttered speak-song voice mutating into more and more enticingly contorted shapes with each successive track.
  10. Mojo
    Sep 9, 2025
    80
    Same old boots, maybe, but significantly racier kecks. [Oct 2025, p.88]

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