Suede

How handy, YouTube has it to hand:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25jreCPK3D0

The bass on that sounds ridiculous, I don't remember the record sounding like that at all.

and lol at them drafting in outside help to do the handclaps

That bass is very silly, but it's a good song. I'd love them to do a great new record. Seems hardly possible.

and lol at them drafting in outside help to do the handclaps

the selection of hand clappers insures a good write up in certain publications.

cynic. me ?

What I want to know is, are they paying their crowd-sourced handclappers industry standard union musician rates?

They're a last minute substitution as Abu Hamza is suddenly unavailable.

Hey! Jude is one of my irl good friend's best friend. She's great! Small world.

Well maybe not for music people but she is great in any event.

Hamza's a mean triangle player, I hope they did those parts first

He's good at coming up with hooks as well... *gets coat*

it's hanging over there, on the polemicist

I wouldn't say I was ever an obsessed fan or anything but...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A4iJ6dnCEAAHBHD.jpg

Then again maybe I was.

Is that Fernando Saunders on that track from yesterday?

So apparently there were a LOT of people on handclaps:

http://www.suede.co.uk/gallery/

So it was some kind of "All You Need Is Love" supersession? Oh, I see, no not quite.

Re: the remasters, Ismael said this about Dog Man Star way earlier:

But now I've got the album proper on and woah is it something - it definitely didn't sound as warm and clear as this back in the day, everything's been properly separated and there are tons of things going on in the background that I swear never used to be there. Shame it's taken seventeen years to put right

Listening closely now, I have to agree. There's this oboe part at the end of "The 2 of Us" I swear I never noticed before which is just amazingly melancholic.

New album is called Bloodsports:

http://thequietus.com/articles/11054-listen-suede-barriers-new-album-bloodsports-details

One new track, Barriers, available to stream (watch out for big Brett face):

http://suedebarriers.viinyl.com/

I dunno.

Kinda not hating this song at all.

The song is not bad, but the production is kind of, hmmm, boring?

Love Suede, glad Suede is back, don't need new Suede. Have enough Suede.

It's OK. Sounds like something I wouldn't mind but would mostly ignore on daytime Radio 6. Editors or something.

Weird how basically nothing happens in the middle 8 before it goes back into the chorus. Some strokes of the guitar but hardly a solo. Maybe Richard wasn't that fussed (he doesn't look too fussed nowadays).

I first listened on headphones, and it's ugly how it jumps into the chorus. VERY LOUD.

Another thing: the second time the word "barriers" is used in every chorus, something musical happens that makes it sound very very Suedey. There's this chord/key change that they've used a million times before, but it is distinctive.

I'd be bored by an album full of this kind of stuff but will probably buy it nevertheless.

Yeah. I don't think the song is great by any means, but it does sound very Suedey.

Cashing in on Richard Osman's new found fame.

It's bugging me what the first two lines sound like! More specific than 'other suede songs' like the rest of it...

intro sounds very

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxM42rG0a08

yeah it does! That's not what I'm thinking of, though.

don't mind this, but fuck me producers are getting lazier and lazier, it feels like there's so much more that could have been done with this

I really like this. I'm so relieved.

I really like this. As it's 'just' an album track I look forward to the singles.

Dammit, overshadowed by Bowie again.

Not this time, I think. This gets better the more I listen to it ('too much reverb' mix notwithstanding). The new Bowie track I couldn't ever imagine wanting to listen to again.

Another thing: the second time the word "barriers" is used in every chorus, something musical happens that makes it sound very very Suedey.

It's got that Suede trademark odd 'wuergh' chord change. If you know what I mean. Kind of the exact opposite of what Noel Gallagher would come up with.

i didn't actually think clicking on the Suede link today would get me a new song. what a pleasant surprise.

on first listen it sound pretty damn good to me, at least it's not all slow and stuff. like others have said, it sounds like Suede. now looking forward to hearing the album.

Since there's an "ILX covers" for the new Bowie, wouldn't it be fun to have one for the new Suede, in parallel ?
I don't think the tracklist has been released yet but I'm pretty sure Ned would be the man to run this project too, huh !

Yeah no tracklist, also Bowie's return is way more of an open goal/out of nowhere effort from a much more notable musician, so.

yeah, of course. just the idea of suede and bowie releasing an album at the same time after such a long time seemed fun !
I'm not even sure enough people care about suede on ILX to make an EP cover !

I think there'll be enough interest if they release a tracklisting with typically Suede-y song titles.

To make the first listen of the forthcoming Suede album more fun, I've devised a little game for myself called 'Suede lyric bingo'... basically, as soon as Brett sings one of the following words, cross them off the list and see if you can get a line or a full house:

'he', 'she', 'dead', 'gone', 'shaking', 'obscene', 'machine', 'killer', 'street', 'sound', 'underground', 'sex', 'nowhere', 'town', 'house', 'estate', 'cheap', 'gasoline', 'petrol', 'car', 'star', 'shit', 'fuck/fucker/fucking', 'bed', 'motorway', 'new', 'head', 'film', 'girl', 'boy', 'woman', 'man', 'stupid', 'beautiful', 'council', 'life', 'together', 'another', 'stay', 'stereo', 'heavy metal', 'stutter', 'thug', 'mouth', 'city', 'aaaaa-haaaaaaow'.

Actually I think you just wrote a new song for them.

you forgot "nuclear" !

and 'maisonette'

also 'anything that might be a vague J G Ballard reference'

instead of covering the tracklist for the next suede album we could imagine the tracklist !

you forgot "nuclear" !

― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, January 11, 2013 11:56 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and 'maisonette'

― scattered to the nine vectors (snoball), Friday, January 11, 2013 11:58 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Added both of those to the list... also 'wind', 'rain', 'mind', 'smack' and 'crack'.

This is that new rap direction they were supposed to be going in, right?

Actually I think you just wrote a new song for them.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, January 11, 2013 4:19 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If David Bowie ever fancies doing another one of his cut-up lyrics, I'd be interested to see what he'd come up with with this bunch!

Bowie has a computer program which can do the cut up process electronically, without having to write out all the words on little bits of paper. Someone should give him a link to ILX.

Oh, and 'lover', got to get 'lover' in there as well.

Bowie has a computer program which can do the cut up process electronically, without having to write out all the words on little bits of paper. Someone should give him a link to ILX.

― pure dressed up like a white ninja (snoball), Friday, January 11, 2013 6:19 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You never know, Bowie likes his internet doesn't he? He probably might have stumbled across these parts at some point or another. In which case... hi, Dave! Drop in, see you around, come back if you're this way again!

We got art!

http://cdn3.pitchfork.com/news/49181/da107943.jpg

We got tracklist!

1. Barriers
2. Snowblind
3. It Starts and Ends With You
4. Sabotage
5. For the Strangers
6. Hit Me
7. Sometimes I Feel I'll Float Away
8. What Are You Not Telling Me?
9. Always
10. Faultlines

*cough* ILX pre covers album *cough*