{"id":400726,"date":"2025-09-05T19:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400726\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T19:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T19:16:10","slug":"suede-antidepressants-review-edgy-post-punk-proves-reunited-britpoppers-remain-on-the-up-suede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/400726\/","title":{"rendered":"Suede: Antidepressants review \u2013 edgy post-punk proves reunited Britpoppers remain on the up | Suede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Suede\u2019s fifth album since their 2013 reformation continues their creative resurgence. Singer Brett Anderson suggests that if 2022\u2019s Autofiction \u2013 their best post-reunion album until now \u2013 was their punk album, Antidepressants is its post-punk sibling. Influences such as Magazine, Joy Division and Siouxsie and the Banshees feed into edgier but otherwise trademark <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/suede\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Suede<\/a> guitar anthems. Helmed again by longtime producer Ed Buller, Richard Oakes\u2019s killer riffs maraud and jostle, Anderson\u2019s moods run the gamut from impassioned to reflective and the rhythm section brew up a right old stomp.<\/p>\n<p>The artwork for Antidepressants<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 57-year-old singer has spoken about his keenness to not be seen as a heritage act and to attract younger audiences. Antidepressants is no throwback. It\u2019s thoroughly postmodern. The eerie background noises and sonic atmospheres chime perfectly with Anderson\u2019s lyrics about what he calls \u201ctensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis\u201d as the band extol the virtues of connection in a dislocated world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Glorious opener <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/BMTwbLL9JWc\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Disintegrate<\/a> invites us to embrace mortality and decay (\u201cCome down and disintegrate with me\u201d). Other songs reflect from a midlife perspective on subjects such as humanity\u2019s transient beauty, breakdowns, toxic relationships or societal dependence on medication. There\u2019s a darker energy altogether on the funereal June Rain, a \u201cvignette of a damaged person\u201d in which Anderson, in character, desperately but movingly concludes: \u201cSo I close my eyes and walk into the traffic flow.\u201d Great 10th albums by any artist are rare jewels indeed, but this is a late career triumph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suede\u2019s fifth album since their 2013 reformation continues their creative resurgence. Singer Brett Anderson suggests that if 2022\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[77,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-400726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115153297977245514","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}