Suede have released the latest single from their upcoming album ‘Antidepressants’ – listen to ‘Trance State’ below.
In May, the band announced their 10th studio album and follow-up to 2022’s ‘Autofiction’ would be released on September 5 via BMG (pre-order it here). They also shared its goth-inspired lead single ‘Disintegrate’.
Now, the NME Godlike Genius recipients have given fans another glimpse of the new record with ‘Trance State’, a heady swirl of chiming guitars and Brett Anderson’s emotionally vulnerable storytelling. Watch the lyric video here:
Speaking about the track, Anderson has said: “When you fall apart, there’s such an honesty and a truth to that. You’re revealing your real self. You’re presenting yourself to the world completely unvarnished. You’re not able to present a facade to the world anymore. It’s just you.”
Anderson added about the album in general: “If ‘Autofiction’ was our punk record, ‘Antidepressants’ is our post-punk record. It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called ‘Antidepressants’. This is broken music for broken people.”
‘Antidepressants’ was recorded live with Ed Buller, who has produced a number of Suede’s records since they first worked together on debut single ‘The Drowners’ in 1992. “It is genuinely exciting being in this band,” Anderson continued. “It feels like we’re still pushing creatively.”
Bassist Mat Osman added: “This is a widescreen and ambitious record. It’s a big stage record and it’s taking it up a gear.”
Suede will also take over London’s Southbank Centre for a series of four exclusive headline shows in September, their first shows at the venue since playing David Bowie’s Meltdown Festival in 2002. Anderson has said: “Expect old songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a couple of surprises.”
The fourth show will be Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline show, in collaboration with the Paraorchestra. Find any remaining tickets here.
Suede will play:
SEPTEMBER
13 – London, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
14 – London, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
17 – London, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
19 – London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
Back in 2022, Anderson told NME about the band’s plans for their next album, saying: “The next record that we’re planning to write, and have already started, is much more experimental. I don’t really know if there’s an arc with [‘Autofiction’]. I’m not seeing it as a selection of albums. You just have to do it one at a time, really. I do think of those three records as [being] together, especially ‘Night Thoughts’ and ‘The Blue Hour’, but the next record will be completely different.”
In a four-star review of ‘Autofuction‘, NME concluded: “This is a Suede record, so there are moments of aching majesty – see the tormented ‘It’s Always The Quiet Ones’, ‘Turn Off Your Brain And Yell’ and the hopelessly devoted ‘What Am I Without You’ (which sees Anderson giving himself to his fans) – but, all in all, ‘Autofiction’ finds the indie greats getting back in the garage to make a racket. This is a band with a lust for life.”
