Baxter Dury - Happy Soup

Released in 2011, Happy Soup is Baxter Dury’s third album, reissued on vinyl in 2026.

Happy Soup brings his droll spoken-word observations and deadpan delivery to a strain of indie-pop he dubbed “seaside psychedelia”.

Playful and melancholic in equal measure, its sparse arrangements are softened by sweet backing vocals from Madelaine Hart, while Dury sketches a distinctly British world of bar-room characters, awkward encounters and bruised romance.