Suede are set to return with their tenth studio album, Antidepressants, and share lead single, Disintegrate.
Antidepressants finds the band charged with the identical power that defines the distinctive energy of their dwell exhibits. For the reason that launch of 2022’s Autofiction – Suede’s extensively acclaimed ninth album and their highest-charting report in over 20 years, debuting at No.2 within the UK Album Chart – the band has carried out to the most important audiences of their profession at exhibits in additional than 14 completely different international locations.
Introducing Suede’s tenth album, Brett Anderson says: “If Autofiction was our punk report, Antidepressants is our post-punk report. It’s concerning the tensions of recent life, the paranoia, the nervousness, the neurosis. We’re all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the texture I needed the songs to have. The album known as Antidepressants. That is damaged music for damaged individuals.”
Antidepressants absolutely realises the fourth part of Suede’s profession and sees Brett Anderson endeavor a few of his most private songwriting. First single Disintegrate is testomony to this reflection, an anthemic acceptance of 1’s personal mortality flipping our common concern of demise right into a darkish celebration of demise, symbolic of the duality of Antidepressants.
The official music video – directed by Chris Turner (Favorite Color: Black Productions) – is shot in black and white and pares Suede’s dwell efficiency all the way down to its starkest essence, glitching and distorting towards visible spoil.
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Damaged Music For Damaged Folks
As Suede began to create the brand new music that might form Antidepressants, they did a whole about-face. What initially started life because the soundtrack to a conceptual efficiency artwork piece was placed on ice. The mass communal expertise that Suede encountered through the previous three years of touring Autofiction was so magnetic that the band needed to utterly change what they had been going to do subsequent. In 2025, Suede are translating their strategy to enjoying in entrance of a dwell viewers straight into their new studio album.
Antidepressants was recorded dwell with Suede’s long-time producer Ed Buller, who first labored with the band when he produced their debut single The Drowners in 1992. But, 35 years into their profession, Suede really feel they’re simply beginning. “It’s genuinely thrilling being on this band. It seems like we’re nonetheless pushing creatively,” says Brett of the brand new album. “This can be a widescreen and bold report,” provides bass participant Mat Osman. “It’s a giant stage report and it’s taking it up a gear.”
A brand new dwell efficiency video for Antidepressants’ title monitor, filmed at Alexandra Palace in summer time 2024 and edited and directed by drummer Simon Gilbert, was lately launched to a rush of pleasure from followers.
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Antidepressants Tracklisting
1. Disintegrate
2. Dancing With The Europeans
3. Antidepressants
4. Candy Child
5. The Sound And The Summer season
6. Someplace Between An Atom And A Star
7. Damaged Music For Damaged Folks
8. Trance State
9. Prison Methods
10. June Rain
11. Life Is Limitless, Life Is A Second
Antidepressants Deluxe CD Observe Itemizing
1. Disintegrate
2. Dancing With the Europeans
3. Antidepressants
4. Candy Child
5. The Sound And the Summer season
6. Someplace Between An Atom And A Star
7. Damaged Music For Damaged Folks
8. Prison Methods
9. Trance State
10. June Rain
11. Life Is Limitless, Life Is A Second
12. Soiled Appears
13. Sharpening Knives
14. Overload
Suede Takeover 2025 Dates
The discharge of Antidepressants will likely be surrounded by Suede Takeover – a particular live performance collection over 4 nights hosted in several venues throughout London’s Southbank Centre all through September 2025. Suede Takeover is a full circle second because the band return to the Southbank Centre for the primary time since performing on the Royal Competition Corridor for David Bowie’s Meltdown in 2002.
The performances will see Suede current their dwell present in utterly new methods, stretching past the format of a rock gig. Brett Anderson mentioned: “Anticipate outdated songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a few surprises.”
13 September – London, Royal Competition Corridor, Southbank Centre
14 September – London, Royal Competition Corridor, Southbank Centre
17 September – London, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
19 September – London, Queen Elizabeth Corridor, Southbank Centre
Southbank Centre members can entry an unique ticket presale on Wednesday 21 Could at 10am. Followers who pre-order the album from the official Suede retailer can entry a presale from Thursday 22 Could at 10am. Common on sale begins on Friday 23 Could at 10am right here.
Antidepressants, due for launch on 5 September by way of BMG, will likely be out there in a number of codecs together with CD (commonplace and deluxe), vinyl (commonplace and color variants), image disc LP, cassette and as a deluxe field set. All pre-orders can be found right here.
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