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, and it was released on 20 October 2014.
Critical reception.
"It's a Pleasure" received a score of 70/100 on the review aggregator website Metacritic based on 7 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews." Another aggregator AnyDecentMusic? gave the album 6.2/10 based on a different sample of 7 critical reviews.
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." 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."
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."
Personnel.
Credits are adapted from the "It's a Pleasure" LP.
Technical and design