It's a Pleasure (album)

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It's a Pleasure
It's a Pleasure (album).jpg
Studio album by
Baxter Dury
Released20 October 2014
Studio
  • Tickle Rooms
  • Dan Carey's Studio
  • ICP
  • 290 Ladbroke
  • State of Ark
Length33:31
Label PIAS
Producer
  • Baxter Dury
  • Mike More
Baxter Dury chronology
Happy Soup
(2011)		It's a Pleasure
(2014)		 Prince of Tears
(2017)
Singles from It's a Pleasure
  1. "Pleasure"
    Released: 9 July 2014
  2. "Palm Trees"
    Released: 16 September 2014

It's a Pleasure is the fourth studio album by English musician Baxter Dury. The majority of the album was produced by Dury and Mike More, [1] and it was released on 20 October 2014. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?6.2/10 [3]
Metacritic 70/100 [4]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Irish Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Line of Best Fit 7/10 [2]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
musicOMH Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [8]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]

It's a Pleasure received a score of 70/100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". [4] Another aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album 6.2/10 based on a different sample of 7 critical reviews. [3]

In a four star review for Record Collector , Jamie Atkins described It's a Pleasure as a "record [that] appears to be the distilled essence of Dury: world-weary songs full of hooks, absolutely no filler, and chock-a-block with memorable lyrics." [10] Christopher Monk, writing for musicOMH , was slightly less positive, stating "there is the sense that this is a very good EP nestled within a merely good album." [8] Rating the album 7/10 for The Line of Best Fit , Laurence Day believed the album to be a display of Baxter Dury's evolution since his previous studio venture Happy Soup (2011), adding "Dury's not exactly ecstatic about much, but his newfound nonchalant devil-may-care attitude is refreshing." [2]

In the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles , It's a Pleasure was ranked number 14 in its list of the best albums of 2014. [11]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Baxter Dury; all music is composed by Dury and Mike More, with additional composers noted. [1]

It's a Pleasure track listing
No.TitleMusicLength
1."Pleasure" 2:22
2."Palm Trees" Fabienne Débarre 4:20
3."Other Men's Girls"Débarre3:45
4."Police"Débarre3:05
5."Lips" 3:05
6."Whispered"Ben Gallagher4:17
7."Petals"Gallagher2:26
8."White Men"Débarre3:55
9."Wintery Kisses"Débarre2:25
10."Babies" 3:51
Total length:33:31

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the It's a Pleasure LP. [1]

Technical and design

Charts

Chart (2014)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [12] 163
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia) [13] 59
French Albums (SNEP) [14] 42
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [15] 44

References

  1. 1 2 3 Dury, Baxter (2014). It's a Pleasure (LP notes). PIAS. PIASL026LP.
  2. 1 2 3 Day, Laurence (14 October 2014). "Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure". Any Decent Music?. Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  4. 1 2 "It's a Pleasure by Baxter Dury". Metacritic . Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  5. ↑ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "It's a Pleasure – Baxter Dury | AllMusic Review". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  6. ↑ Clayton-Lea, Tony (24 October 2014). "Baxter Dury: It's a Pleasure". The Irish Times . Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  7. ↑ Gilbert, Pat (20 October 2014). "Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure". Mojo . Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  8. 1 2 Monk, Christopher (25 October 2014). "Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure". musicOMH . Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  9. ↑ Carson, Dan (18 October 2014). "Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure". NME . Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  10. 1 2 Atkins, Jamie (5 October 2014). "It's a Pleasure| Baxter Dury". Record Collector . Retrieved 11 May 2025.
  11. ↑ Fall, Azzedine (16 December 2014). "Top 100: The Best Albums of 2014" . Les Inrockuptibles (in French). p. 9. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  12. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  13. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  14. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Baxter Dury – It's a Pleasure". Hung Medien. Retrieved 10 May 2025.
  15. ↑ "Baxter Dury | Artist | Official Charts". UK Albums Chart . Retrieved 10 May 2025.
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