As reintroductions go, Baxter Dury’s slinky Miami is as striking as any: the first track on his forthcoming Prince of Tears full-length, and a first to emerge from it, it makes for a defining (if less than redefining) listen that can be slightly reductively condensed down into a litany of self-coined sobriquets over a swivelling, gyrating bass line. (Incidentally, having been co-produced by sometime Metronomy accomplice Ash Workman, Miami proves reminiscent of so much of the comparatively lo-fi Summer 08.) Thus as Dury considers himself (or, rather, the song’s cocksure, eponymous caricature) everything from “the main course,” to “Morgan Freeman,” to “the turgid, fucked-up little goat, pissing on your fuckin’ ’ill,” it’s left to a stark, controlling four-string to tie everything together and tide the single over until a number of unanticipatedly disco-based elements strut through its lattermost moments. By which point, it really does seem fairly unfair to speak of it in those reductive terms aforementioned…

Prince of Tears is available from October 27^th via Heavenly Recordings, while Baxter Dury plays KOKO on November 29^th.