Suede have teased {that a} third album to finish their present trilogy is on the best way this decade.
Suede delivered a uncommon deal with for followers on the launch of their six-date residency at London’s Southbank Centre
At their sold-out In The Spherical present at London’s Southbank Centre on Tuesday evening (27.08.25), Brett Anderson and co delivered one thing really uncommon: a full stay efficiency of their forthcoming album Antidepressants, weeks forward of its official launch.
The daring transfer marked a defiant step into the long run for the Britpop icons, with Anderson, 57, declaring from the stage: “We’re the anti-nostalgia band.” That ethos was felt all through the evening, because the band leaned closely into the brand new materials, whereas additionally treating followers to an encore of tracks from 2013’s Bloodsports, 2016’s Evening Ideas, 2018’s The Blue Hour, and 2022’s Autofiction.
Antidepressants, out September 5, follows 2022’s Autofiction and varieties the second instalment of what Anderson describes as a “black and white” trilogy. The third and ultimate chapter, he teased, will arrive later this decade.
Introducing the closing observe on the album, he stated: “Thanks a lot. That is our second black and white album of the 2020s. There might be a 3rd black and white album. After which we are going to go to a special color! That is the final music on the second album of our black and white interval. That is Life Is Countless, Life Is A Second.”
The band are internet hosting a six-date residency, dubbed Suede’s Takeover, on the Southbank Centre.
On September 12 within the Purcell Room, Suede will revisit the up-close-and-personal 2018 documentary The Insatiable Ones. Discussing its highs and lows with Miranda Sawyer and director Mike Christie in a stay Q+A, and filling within the gaps from the final seven years.
Suede Takeover continues on the Royal Competition Corridor on September 13 and 14, with “two units of Suede’s fiercely liked classics, hits and new music”. Particular visitors Bloodworm and Gazelle Twin be a part of them on September 13 and 14, respectively.
On September 17, the band will carry out within the Purcell Room for an intimate off-mic night. The residency closes on September 19 within the Queen Elizabeth Corridor, with Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline present, in collaboration with the Paraorchestra.
Antidepressants channels the uncooked vitality that’s made them one in every of Britain’s most intense stay acts.
Anderson stated of the LP: “If Autofiction was our punk file, Antidepressants is our post-punk file. It’s concerning the tensions of recent life, the paranoia, the anxiousness, 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 folks.”
Antidepressants might be out there in a number of codecs together with CD (customary and deluxe), vinyl (customary and color variants), image disc LP, cassette and as a deluxe field set.
