Suede return with ‘Disintegrate’ to announce new album ‘Antidepressants’ and London Southbank takeover
Suede have introduced their new album ‘Antidepressants’ and shared its lead single ‘Disingtegrate’ – test it out beneath.
The band’s tenth studio album shall be launched on September 5 by way of BMG – pre-order it here – and later that month, the NME Godlike Genius recipients will take over London’s Southbank Centre for a collection of 4 unique headline reveals.
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 monitor.
Watch the black-and-white video for ‘Disintegrate’, directed by Chris Turner, right here:
Talking concerning the album, frontman Brett Anderson has stated: “If Autofiction was our punk file, Antidepressants is our post-punk file. It’s concerning the tensions of contemporary life, the paranoia, the nervousness, the neurosis. We’re all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the texture I wished the songs to have. The album known as Antidepressants. That is damaged music for damaged folks.”
‘Antidepressants’ was recorded reside with Ed Buller, who additionally produced Suede’s 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: “It is a widescreen and bold file. It’s an enormous stage file and it’s taking it up a gear.”
The quartet of London reveals shall be Suede’s first gigs on the Southbank Centre since taking part in David Bowie’s Meltdown Competition 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 shall 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 (Might 21), whereas followers who pre-order the album here can entry a presale code from 10am on Thursday (Might 22). Tickets go on normal sale at 10am on Friday (Might 23).
Suede will play:
SEPTEMBER
13 – London, Royal Competition Corridor, Southbank Centre
14 – London, Royal Competition Corridor, Southbank Centre
17 – London, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
19 – London, Queen Elizabeth Corridor, Southbank Centre
The ‘Antidepressants’ tracklist shall 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’
- ‘Felony Methods’
- ‘June Rain’
- ‘Life Is Countless, Life Is A Second’
Again in 2022, Anderson informed NME concerning the band’s plans for his or her subsequent album, saying: “The following file that we’re planning to jot down, and have already began, is way more experimental. I don’t actually know if there’s an arc with [‘Autofiction’]. I’m not seeing it as a choice of albums. You simply should do it one by one, actually. I do consider these three data as [being] collectively, particularly ‘Night time Ideas’ and ‘The Blue Hour’, however the subsequent file shall be fully completely different.”
He added: “I’d like to suppose that our most daring work is forward of us. That’s a very thrilling prospect – {that a} band at our stage of our profession haven’t simply settled for working via the motions. I like making new data: it makes my coronary heart beat quicker, it’s what I rise up for within the morning.”
In a four-star evaluate of ‘Autofuction‘, NME concluded: “It is a Suede file, so there are moments of aching majesty – see the tormented ‘It’s At all times 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. It is a band with a lust for all times.”