Good morning, hoddlers - fitzie is currently travelling and unable to provide you football links today, but please enjoy the ones below about suede
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How are Suede still this good?
While their Britpop rivals like Oasis might be embracing a tour de force across the northern hemisphere, Brett Anderson’s outfit has released a 10th studio album that speaks to the decaying human existence.
This is Suede, baby.
Suede recently released its latest album Disintegration, continuing a run of strong studio work since the band’s reunion in 2013. Yes, the core motifs of the band remain, but this is an evolved version of Suede that is dealing with a new stage in the bandmembers’ lives.
It invokes dark things like medication obsession. And it deals with things about modern life, Anderson says in his lyrics - like paranoia and anxiety - in a society that seems to be furhter and further excommunicated from the other.
Roaring guitar licks carry lead singer Brett Anderson’s lyrics to great effect, making this experiment a greater artistic achievement than others in the Britpop scene back in the day,.
I wish Suede would tour in the US again. I don’t think it’s likely, and I did look at tour dates in the UK and Europe thinking I could take a short trip to see them there.
They’re one of my favourite bands - this post-punk, post-modern darkness that sinks into the darkness eyes-open, eyes-shut.
Why would you want Oasis or Blur or Pulp or The Verve when you’ve got Suede?
This record is a triumph. I recommend everyone listens to it. This band has something to say.
Fitzie’s track of the day: Disintegrate, by Suede
And now for your links:
Los Angeles Times: “Suede started Britpop before Oasis, but the band refuses to stay there. ‘We are anti-nostalgia.’”
The Guardian: “Suede: Antidepressants review – edgy post-punk proves reunited Britpoppers remain on the up”
Uncut: “‘It’s a very sensual song’ – Suede on the making of “The Drowners”“