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<\/p>\nThe band continues one of British rock\u2019s most heartening comeback stories of recent years with an album that feels like a companion piece to 2022\u2019s \u2018Autofiction\u2019\n<\/p>\n
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Brett Anderson of Suede performs at The Royal Festival Hall Clore Ballroom, London, to mark the release of their new album ‘Antidepressants’. Photo: Jim Dyson\/Getty<\/p>\n
Brett Anderson, Suede\u2019s frontman, recently described his band as \u201canti-nostalgia\u201d. It\u2019s surely a pointed reference to Oasis, who didn\u2019t even bother to write new songs for their (excellent) comeback shows.<\/p>\n
Suede made their mark before Oasis \u2014 they effectively birthed Britpop, even though Anderson hates the term. While the Gallagher brothers are content to plunder their mid-1990s material for their live shows, Suede are determined to plough new furrows, to release original material that\u2019s not in thrall to what they did before, but songs that can stand proudly themselves.<\/p>\n
Their second coming \u2014 which began with 2013\u2019s Bloodsports \u2014 is one of British rock\u2019s most heartening stories of recent years. Unlike most of their peers, the quintet have released a string of superb comeback albums that see them looking forward, not backwards. In fact, this ninth offering means that they\u2019ve released more albums than in their first flush of success.<\/p>\n
In some ways, Antidepressants feels like a companion piece to their last one, 2022\u2019s spirited Autofiction, although if that one was a punk album, this one feels rooted in post-punk.<\/p>\n
A sense of creeping anxiety and paranoia inform songs that capture what it is to feel disconnected in an always-on world. One of the song titles, Broken Music for Broken People, is particularly apt and many will draw comparisons to bands like early Cure and Public Image Ltd. Opening track Disintegrate \u2014 a nod to the Cure\u2019s Disintegration \u2014 is thrillingly bleak and built on muscular percussion from Simon Gilbert.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s an album of raw power \u2014 one befitting a band that remain electrifying live, as was the case when they played Dublin last year as part of the Trinity Summer Series.<\/p>\n
Ed Buller\u2019s production accentuates Suede\u2019s standing as a great live band and while there are studio tricks, much of this album feels as though the five bandmates are playing live in a room together. It lends the songs an intoxicating sense of urgency.<\/p>\n
Several tracks are up there with Suede\u2019s best, but the playful Criminal Ways and the startling title song deserves special mention. The latter truly captures what a special live band Suede are, 32 years after their debut album. It\u2019s every bit as blistering and brutally direct as their earliest singles were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The band continues one of British rock\u2019s most heartening comeback stories of recent years with an album that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,19,17,17689,337,2519],"class_list":{"0":"post-44661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-john-meagher","13":"tag-music","14":"tag-review-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}