Sometimes the debut is the only music I can listen to these days
― imago, Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:54 (six years ago) link
Or rather, the only music that I'm compelled to hear. It happens every few months
― imago, Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link
great stuff in that Buller interview indeed
Whereas on Daddy’s Speeding, he just got this weird thing in his head where he wanted the word speeding to sound like schhhpeeding (laughing), so it sounded like a car. He kept saying, “Does it sound like a car Ed?” And I was like (laughing), “Yes, it sounds like a car Brett – a big silver car going very, very fast!”
― niels, Saturday, 24 March 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
the questions are hilarious though
10.Do you have a favourite opening and closing album track + a favourite song intro, middle-section and outro?
― niels, Saturday, 24 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Great interview.
When we started to do vocals, one of the agreements was that we wouldn’t use so many reverbs, we’d just use little delays. That obviously just started to go out of the window, because Brett can’t stand his voice being dry – he can’t stand it! He has to have lots of effects.
This explains a lot.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 24 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
New album, The Blue Hour, out September 21! Produced by Alan Moulder. Had no idea they were in the studio again but very pleased to hear they are.
http://thequietus.com/articles/24495-suede-blue-hour-album
― early rejecter, Monday, 30 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
Anderson was hinting at greater ambition. We'll see. Exciting though!
― imago, Monday, 30 April 2018 16:31 (six years ago) link
Holy shit! Excellent news... their last two albums were fucking awesome.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 30 April 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Hmm, I love Moulder but dunno if he's a good fit for the group. I guess it depends on what they are going for.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 April 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Could be a pretentious mess but they seems to have had a hold on things since the reunion, so I'm up for this this
― PaulTMA, Monday, 30 April 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
I'm hoping for a pretentious mess tbh
― imago, Monday, 30 April 2018 17:34 (six years ago) link
They've been talking up making one since the last one. I'm just hoping it isn't too comically 'out there', in a Suede way.
Really enjoyed Night Thoughts, but it's going to take a lot to forget the awful Eastenders-dressed-up-as-Derek-Jarman movie that accompanied it for the two live album performances I saw
― PaulTMA, Monday, 30 April 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
spoken word :/
― kinder, Monday, 30 April 2018 18:41 (six years ago) link
xps No-one manages to pulls off pretentious mess like Suede.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Monday, 30 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
yeah that film, jesus.
― piscesx, Monday, 30 April 2018 19:57 (six years ago) link
Also no-one manages to unnecessarily pluralise a word like me...
I will listen to this, but their two recent albums have absolutely fitted into the genre of bombastic indie rock, and nothing more, a big turn-off for me. I've seen them play live for both (including that film), and when they play older songs it is as exciting as in the old days. I keep hoping that through playing them, they will manage to recapture some of that. Or something weirder! That preview video sounds pretty good, but on the album that's probably just gonna be a transition between two solid indie tunes.
― Eyeball Kicks, Monday, 30 April 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
Dismissing anything by Suede as bombastic ... I mean, is there literally anything by this (awesome) band that can be described as subtle?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 30 April 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
The Living Dead / My Dark Star Sleeping Pills / By the Sea etc
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
Anyway, the adjective goes with the noun, and I don't think they recorded anything that could be described as bombastic indie rock prior to their reforming.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 00:47 (six years ago) link
The parts of Dog Man Star that I guess might be called bombastic (not by me) are certainly not indie rock.
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 00:50 (six years ago) link
idk the recent albums sounds like Suede to me, albeit a touch more streamlined than their peak-era stuff. I listen to quite a bit of indie rock and can't think of any recent bands that sound much like 'em in any era. (and "The Living Dead" might be quiet but it's anything but subtle)
― Simon H., Tuesday, 1 May 2018 01:22 (six years ago) link
I Don't Know How To Reach You might be bombastic but it's as good as indie gets
― imago, Tuesday, 1 May 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
What do we reckon? Very much takes off where Night Thoughts left off, which is no bad thing. Clearly not a 'single' in the traditional sense.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gqzvcj0-kF4
― PaulTMA, Monday, 4 June 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
I thought that was Rose McGowen for a few seconds. Anyway, it's good but yeah, very "album track."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 June 2018 17:43 (five years ago) link
Not too surprised they've picked a slow burner, non-single single to kick off with, considering how they are talking up this new album.
― PaulTMA, Monday, 4 June 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Predictably, I love it. I've really been enjoying what Suede have been getting up to since they reformed.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 4 June 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
it's a beaut. If only they'd play over here!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 June 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
"Don't Be Afraid If Nobody Loves You" is pretty nice!
― Simon H., Friday, 13 July 2018 18:05 (five years ago) link
I can’t stop playing it for a week now. Title/chorus sounds like by the numbers BA, but he’s doing something quite Kate Bush-y in the verses. Hoping for a pretentious mess x3
― nikola, Saturday, 21 July 2018 00:08 (five years ago) link
You know, the thing I don't like about modern Suede is Richard Oakes' guitar. This song would be really good if not for his crappy tone and robotic playing.
― Eyeball Kicks, Friday, 27 July 2018 20:08 (five years ago) link
It does feel like an inferior re-do of I Don't Know How To Reach You, which is already one of their crowning achievement
― imago, Friday, 27 July 2018 21:20 (five years ago) link
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I like Oakes' guitar just fine and he's come up with some great things over the years.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 27 July 2018 21:25 (five years ago) link
Not to mention he can play Butler's guitar parts on the old stuff live better than Butler ever could.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 27 July 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
This recent phase of Suede's career (Bloodsports to date) might just be my favourite phase of their career to date. They've been on great form.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 27 July 2018 21:28 (five years ago) link
*date=present
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 27 July 2018 21:29 (five years ago) link
Sold on this after one listenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEJfWrfN15k
― PaulTMA, Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
good song, bit of Rocknroll Suicidevideo doesn't help it, neither does the production imo (still waiting for that undercompressed live album with highlights from Bloodsports and Night Thoughts)
― niels, Thursday, 16 August 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
I guess it's good but I'm never gonna get into this version of Suede. I prefer e.g. Can't Get Enough or Savoir Faire to any Suede song post 2000. And I don't even like those songs that much. No point in me hoping for another Metal Mickey or New Generation or Flashboy – it's no shame of theirs they can't provide it, more mine for wanting it.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
I like that you can see Oaksy playing an axe solo on top of one of the tower blocks.
― djh, Thursday, 16 August 2018 21:39 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ICCmPv7.png
― incarcerated moonfaces (how's life), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
Oh that song is very good - like making a whole song out of a "Wild Ones" verse.
Also, the video is kind of perfect for Suede, inhabiting the same empty and depopulated world of emotional desolation as the 'Sci-Fi Lullabies' cover. It would have been perfect if they had left out any Cyrillic letters to make the location less obvious.
― Spencer Chow, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
I'm quite surprised at how great the whole package is, speaking as someone who liked the album but truly hated the Night Thoughts film
― PaulTMA, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
So, the new album. Both long songs are really good (yeah yeah vmic) but I'm not sold on the rest yet - feels like a step down from Night Thoughts
― imago, Friday, 21 September 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
I found Night Thoughts ok (but never went back to it).This one, I couldn't bother to listen to more than a few seconds of each new track.I guess I simply don't like THIS band (as it is now).
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 21 September 2018 09:35 (five years ago) link
Love Night Thoughts, can't remember Bloodsports (but liked it iirc), thanks for the bump on the new one! Us Yanks need to pay attention!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 21 September 2018 11:42 (five years ago) link
they went full vintage-Scott-Walker for this one huh
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:23 (five years ago) link
I don't hear 'vintage Scott Walker' at all tbh.
The opener is a grotesque dud, but the rest is.. not bad?
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 21 September 2018 13:32 (five years ago) link
Couple of plays in and it sounds like Night Thoughts with a choir. Not quite the out-there experience they said they were going to make, but probably another worthy addition
― PaulTMA, Friday, 21 September 2018 13:40 (five years ago) link