Suede have introduced their new album ‘Antidepressants’ and shared its lead single ‘Disingtegrate’ – test it out beneath.
The band’s tenth studio album might be launched on September 5 through BMG – pre-order it right here – and later that month, the NME Godlike Genius recipients will take over London’s Southbank Centre for a sequence of 4 unique headline exhibits.
It’s the follow-up to their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Autofiction’, and primarily based on ‘Disintegrate’, it’ll see the band additional embrace goth-flavoured punk influences, as additionally teased by a recently-shared reside video for the brand new album’s title observe.
Watch the black-and-white video for ‘Disintegrate’, directed by Chris Turner, right here:
Talking in regards to the album, frontman Brett Anderson has stated: “If ‘Autofiction’ was our punk file, ‘Antidepressants’ is our post-punk file. It’s in regards to the tensions of contemporary life, the paranoia, the anxiousness, the neurosis. We’re all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the texture I wished the songs to have. The album is known as ‘Antidepressants’. That is damaged music for damaged folks.”
‘Antidepressants’ was recorded reside with Ed Buller, who produced quite a lot of Suede’s data since they first labored collectively on debut single ‘The Drowners’ in 1992. “It’s genuinely thrilling being on this band,” Anderson continued. “It looks like we’re nonetheless pushing creatively.”
Bassist Mat Osman added: “This can be a widescreen and bold file. It’s a giant stage file and it’s taking it up a gear.”
The quartet of London exhibits might be Suede’s first gigs on the Southbank Centre since enjoying David Bowie’s Meltdown Pageant in 2002. Anderson has stated: “Anticipate previous songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a few surprises.”
The fourth present might be Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline present, in collaboration with the Paraorchestra. Southbank Centre members can entry an unique ticket presale at 10am on Wednesday (Could 21), whereas followers who pre-order the album right here can entry a presale code from 10am on Thursday (Could 22). Tickets go on normal sale at 10am on Friday (Could 23).
Suede will play:
SEPTEMBER
13 – London, Royal Pageant Corridor, Southbank Centre
14 – London, Royal Pageant Corridor, Southbank Centre
17 – London, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
19 – London, Queen Elizabeth Corridor, Southbank Centre
The ‘Antidepressants’ tracklist might be:
- ‘Disintegrate’
- ‘Dancing With The Europeans’
- ‘Antidepressants’
- ‘Candy Child’
- ‘The Sound And The Summer season’
- ‘Someplace Between An Atom And A Star’
- ‘Damaged Music For Damaged Individuals’
- ‘Trance State’
- ‘Prison Methods’
- ‘June Rain’
- ‘Life Is Limitless, Life Is A Second’
Again in 2022, Anderson informed NME in regards to the band’s plans for his or her subsequent album, saying: “The subsequent file that we’re planning to write down, and have already began, is far more experimental. I don’t actually know if there’s an arc with [‘Autofiction’]. I’m not seeing it as a number of albums. You simply must do it one by one, actually. I do consider these three data as [being] collectively, particularly ‘Evening Ideas’ and ‘The Blue Hour’, however the subsequent file might be utterly totally different.”
He added: “I’d like to suppose that our most daring work is forward of us. That’s a extremely thrilling prospect – {that a} band at our stage of our profession haven’t simply settled for working by means of the motions. I like making new data: it makes my coronary heart beat sooner, it’s what I stand up for within the morning.”
In a four-star overview of ‘Autofuction‘, NME concluded: “This can be a Suede file, so there are moments of aching majesty – see the tormented ‘It’s All the time The Quiet Ones’, ‘Flip Off Your Mind And Yell’ and the hopelessly devoted ‘What Am I With out You’ (which sees Anderson giving himself to his followers) – however, all in all, ‘Autofiction’ finds the indie greats getting again within the storage to make a racket. This can be a band with a lust for all times.”