Suede are set to launch their tenth studio album, ‘Antidepressants’, on September 5.
Suede have a brand new album and particular live performance sequence taking place in September
The Brett Anderson-led band are gearing as much as launch the follow-up to 2022’s Autofiction – their highest-charting file in over 20 years, which reached quantity two within the UK Album Chart – which has been dubbed “damaged music for damaged individuals” by the 57-year-old singer.
Suede have additionally shared the brooding lead single, ‘Disintegrate’; an “anthemic acceptance of 1’s personal mortality flipping our common concern of loss of life right into a darkish celebration of demise.”
Brett mentioned: “If Autofiction was our punk file, Antidepressants is our post-punk file. It’s concerning the tensions of contemporary life, the paranoia, the nervousness, the neurosis. We’re all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the texture I wished the songs to have. The album known as Antidepressants. That is damaged music for damaged individuals.”
A press launch notes how: “In 2025, Suede are translating their method to taking part in in entrance of a reside viewers instantly into their new studio album.”
Suede have as soon as once more teamed up with long-time producer Ed Buller on the gathering.
Many bands would get jaded by the inventive course of 36 years in – however not Suede.
Brett mentioned: “It’s genuinely thrilling being on this band. It seems like we’re nonetheless pushing creatively.
“It is a widescreen and bold file.”
Bass participant Mat Osman added: “It is a large stage file and it is taking it up a gear.”
The lyrics are “a few of” Brett’s “most private” to this point.
The album unveiling comes after Suede shared a reside efficiency video for the album’s title monitor filmed at their live performance at London’s Alexandra Palace final summer season.
What’s extra, the band introduced the ‘Suede Takeover’ live performance sequence, which is able to happen over 4 nights at varied venues at London’s Southbank Centre this September.
It can mark the primary time the rock band has performed the Southbank Centre since they stepped onstage on the Royal Competition Corridor for late music legend David Bowie’s Meltdown Competition in 2002.
Gig-gores can anticipate Suede to “current their reside present in fully new methods, stretching past the format of a rock gig.
Brett mentioned: “Count on outdated songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a few surprises.”
‘Suede Takeover’ begins on the Royal Competition Corridor on September 13 and 14, with two shock units of music outdated and new. On September 17, the band will carry out within the Purcell Room for what’s being billed as an “uncommon and intimate off-mic night”.
The residency concludes on September 19 within the Queen Elizabeth Corridor, with Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline present, in collaboration with the Paraorchestra.
Southbank Centre members can entry an unique ticket presale on Might 21 at 10am. Followers who pre-order the album from the official Suede retailer can entry a presale from Might 22 at 10am. Normal on sale begins on Might 23 at 10am by way of www.southbankcentre.co.uk/occasions/suede-takeover/.
‘Antidepressants’ shall be obtainable 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. Pre-orders can be found now.
