Suede have announced their new album ‘Antidepressants’ and shared its lead single ‘Disingtegrate’ – check it out below.
The band’s 10th studio album will be released on September 5 via BMG – pre-order it here – and later that month, the NME Godlike Genius recipients will take over London’s Southbank Centre for a series of four exclusive headline shows.
It is the follow-up to their acclaimed 2022 album ‘Autofiction’, and based on ‘Disintegrate’, it will see the band further embrace goth-flavoured punk influences, as also teased by a recently-shared live video for the new album’s title track.
Watch the black-and-white video for ‘Disintegrate’, directed by Chris Turner, here:
Speaking about the album, frontman Brett Anderson has said: “If ‘Autofiction’ was our punk record, ‘Antidepressants’ is our post-punk record. It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called ‘Antidepressants’. This is broken music for broken people.”
‘Antidepressants’ was recorded live with Ed Buller, who produced a number of Suede’s records since they first worked together on debut single ‘The Drowners’ in 1992. “It is genuinely exciting being in this band,” Anderson continued. “It feels like we’re still pushing creatively.”
Bassist Mat Osman added: “This is a widescreen and ambitious record. It’s a big stage record and it’s taking it up a gear.”
The quartet of London shows will be Suede’s first gigs at the Southbank Centre since playing David Bowie’s Meltdown Festival in 2002. Anderson has said: “Expect old songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a couple of surprises.”
The fourth show will be Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline show, in collaboration with the Paraorchestra. Southbank Centre members can access an exclusive ticket presale at 10am on Wednesday (May 21), while fans who pre-order the album here can access a presale code from 10am on Thursday (May 22). Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday (May 23).
Suede will play:
SEPTEMBER
13 – London, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
14 – London, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
17 – London, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
19 – London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
The ‘Antidepressants’ tracklist will be:
- ‘Disintegrate’
- ‘Dancing With The Europeans’
- ‘Antidepressants’
- ‘Sweet Kid’
- ‘The Sound And The Summer’
- ‘Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star’
- ‘Broken Music For Broken People’
- ‘Trance State’
- ‘Criminal Ways’
- ‘June Rain’
- ‘Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment’
Back in 2022, Anderson told NME about the band’s plans for their next album, saying: “The next record that we’re planning to write, and have already started, is much more experimental. I don’t really know if there’s an arc with [‘Autofiction’]. I’m not seeing it as a selection of albums. You just have to do it one at a time, really. I do think of those three records as [being] together, especially ‘Night Thoughts’ and ‘The Blue Hour’, but the next record will be completely different.”
He added: “I’d love to think that our most daring work is ahead of us. That’s a really exciting prospect – that a band at our stage of our career haven’t just settled for running through the motions. I love making new records: it makes my heart beat faster, it’s what I get up for in the morning.”
In a four-star review of ‘Autofuction‘, NME concluded: “This is a Suede record, so there are moments of aching majesty – see the tormented ‘It’s Always The Quiet Ones’, ‘Turn Off Your Brain And Yell’ and the hopelessly devoted ‘What Am I Without You’ (which sees Anderson giving himself to his fans) – but, all in all, ‘Autofiction’ finds the indie greats getting back in the garage to make a racket. This is a band with a lust for life.”
