{"id":38115,"date":"2025-08-01T00:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38115\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T00:29:12","slug":"every-suede-album-ranked-from-worst-to-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/38115\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Suede Album Ranked From Worst To Best"},"content":{"rendered":"

Twice derailed by egomania, hard drugs and Britpop,\u00a0MOJO\u2019s current co-cover stars<\/a> Suede continue to sashay on \u2013 wiser, sturdier and more creative than ever.\u00a0 On September 5, the band release their tenth album,\u00a0Antidepressants, which revives Brett Anderson and co.\u2019s formative suburban post-punk influences (Magazine, The Cult, Crass), while pointing vigorously to the future.<\/p>\n

Ahead of\u00a0Antidepressants\u2019 release, MOJO’s Victoria Segal ranks and rates every album from the band to date, from the bedsit glam of their Britpop-heralding 1993 debut to the stark, feral energy of 2022\u2019s middle period highpoint\u00a0Autofiction.<\/p>\n

9.<\/p>\n

A New Morning<\/p>\n

(Epic, 2002)<\/p>\n

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Recorded after Anderson cleaned up his act, Suede\u2019s fifth album has its moments \u2013 the Haywards Heath Springsteen of One Hit To The Body, Lost In TV\u2019s psychic white-out \u2013 but after the distinctive sting of Suede\u2019s earlier work, this competent, non-specific indie was anticlimactic. One good reason to salute this record, though: the band\u2019s \u201cStalinist\u201d desire to obliterate its memory would eventually spur their re-formation.<\/p>\n

8.<\/p>\n

Head Music<\/p>\n

(Nude, 1999)<\/p>\n

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Created while Anderson was deep in addiction (see his excellent memoir Afternoons With The Blinds Drawn for bleak details),\u00a0Head Music\u00a0was very much Suede \u201cfeeling schizo, ever so psycho\u201d, hell-bent on wonky experimentation. Can\u2019t Get Enough carries off the glamtronica racket well, while the ballads \u2013 Everything Will Flow, Indian Strings and the diaphanous She\u2019s In Fashion \u2013 elegantly veil the worst excesses.<\/p>\n

7.<\/p>\n

Bloodsports<\/p>\n

(Warner Music, 2013)<\/p>\n

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Sound the horns! After a string of reunion shows, Suede announced a sixth album \u2013 a \u201ccarnal\u201d cross between\u00a0Dog Man Star\u00a0and\u00a0Coming Up, according to Anderson. It Starts And Ends With You; Faultlines; Barriers: these songs not only erased the disappointments of\u00a0A New Morning\u00a0but also blasted a path to a newly creative Suede era. The thrill of the musical hunt, rediscovered.<\/p>\n

6.<\/p>\n

Night Thoughts<\/p>\n

(Warner Music, 2016)<\/p>\n

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Bloodsports, Anderson said, was still driven by \u201cthe feeling that we should try to write pop and rock music.\u201d Admittedly, plenty of that remained on Night Thoughts \u2013 not least the hands-in-the-air Outsiders and the\u00a0Coming Up-worthy Like Kids \u2013 but as their comeback gathered momentum, they were increasingly keen to stretch out. The result: a song-cycle inspired by the fears triggered by fatherhood and the strange legacies of family.<\/p>\n

5.<\/p>\n

The Blue Hour<\/p>\n

(Warner Music, 2018)<\/p>\n

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Inspired by \u201970s TV folk-horror Penda\u2019s Fen and glacial Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki, Suede broke new ground with this gloriously disconcerting survey of the edgelands, both literal \u2013 think barbed wire and abandoned fridges \u2013 and psychological. Picking through the hedgerows, they collected songs about dead birds, chalk circles and \u201cthe terrors of childhood\u201d, this most urban of bands extending into the rustic strange.<\/p>\n

4.<\/p>\n

Autofiction<\/p>\n

(BMG, 2022)<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s clear why Suede thought a reset was required here \u2013\u00a0_The Blue Hour\u2019_s logical next step possibly was a contemporary ballet \u2013 but instead of flattening themselves out, Suede amped themselves up, their love of punk (and beyond) fired into these stark, raging songs. The shadows fall darkly, but the sheer feral energy of Turn Off Your Brain And Yell or 15 Again made\u00a0Autofiction\u00a0a very bright spot in their catalogue.<\/p>\n

3.<\/p>\n

Coming Up<\/p>\n

(Nude, 1996)<\/p>\n

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After the personal and musical differences that shattered Suede\u2019s first incarnation,\u00a0Coming Up\u00a0was deliberately direct, bringing vital proof that Richard Oakes and Neil Codling were strong signings. Trash and Beautiful Ones hit peak outsider-anthem euphoria; By The Sea kept the romance alive, while Picnic By The Motorway\u2019s carbon-monoxide haze was their own perverse Magical Mystery Tour. High on diesel, gasoline, new possibilities.<\/p>\n

2.<\/p>\n

Dog Man Star<\/p>\n

(Nude, 1994)<\/p>\n

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As omni-talented guitarist Bernard Butler\u2019s last turbulent stand with Suede,\u00a0Dog Man Star\u00a0was almost drowned out by the unhappy story of its making. The drama of these songs (cf. The Wild Ones, New Generation) wouldn\u2019t be overshadowed for long, though. A yearning for something bigger and better still shines through the tumble of film stars, thwarted romance and imminent apocalypse.<\/p>\n

1.<\/p>\n

Suede<\/p>\n

(Nude, 1993)<\/p>\n

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Have you ever tried it that way? A superb act of world-building, Suede\u2019s debut is a portal \u2013 or maybe peephole \u2013 into an existence that trembles between desperation, ugliness and ethereal beauty. Animal Nitrate, She\u2019s Not Dead or Pantomime Horse drag the listener into places they shouldn\u2019t be: a bedroom, a car, a troubled mind. Quite the introduction to the band.<\/p>\n

“We were always a marmite band \u2013 even among our own fans!”<\/p>\n

Get the latest interview of MOJO to read our exclusive cover interview with Suede. Plus! Get your hands on the accompanying bespoke CD of rare and unreleased Suede tracks handpicked by the band especially for MOJO! More info and to order a copy HERE<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Photo: Suede, New York, 1994 (Credit: Bob Berg\/Getty)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twice derailed by egomania, hard drugs and Britpop,\u00a0MOJO\u2019s current co-cover stars Suede continue to sashay on \u2013 wiser,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-38115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}