Suede, bless their cotton socks (or should that be leather trousers?), are BACK! 🥳 With their TENTH studio album, creatively titled Antidepressants, because, you know, originality is SO overrated. And guess what? They’ve dropped a lead single called Disintegrate. Because who doesn’t want to listen to a song about falling apart? 🤷♀️ It’s not like we’re all doing that already.
Apparently, Antidepressants is “charged with the same energy” as their live shows. Which either means it’s going to be slightly out of tune and Brett Anderson will be sweating profusely, or it’s going to be really, REALLY loud. Since the release of 2022’s Autofiction (which, let’s be honest, nobody remembers), Suede has been playing to “the largest audiences of their career.” Maybe because everyone else is dead? 🤔 Or maybe people just have REALLY bad taste. Either way, good for them, I guess. 🤷
Brett Anderson, bless his heart, says: “If Autofiction was our punk record, Antidepressants is our post-punk record.” Oh, honey, no. Just no. You’re not punk, you’re Britpop Dad Rock. Get over it. He continues: “It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis.” Wow, groundbreaking stuff, Brett! 🤯 Nobody has EVER written about those things before! “We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world.” Deep. So deep, I think I just saw a mermaid. 🧜♀️ “This is broken music for broken people.” Translation: If you’re already depressed, this album will make it worse! You’re welcome!
Apparently, Antidepressants “fully realises the fourth phase of Suede’s career.” Fourth phase? I thought they were on like, phase 27 of “trying to stay relevant.” 😂 First single Disintegrate is an “anthemic acceptance of one’s own mortality.” So, basically, a song about dying. Cheerful! It’s a “dark celebration of demise.” Because nothing says “party” like contemplating your inevitable doom! 🎉 It’s “symbolic of the duality of Antidepressants.” Which means it’s probably pretentious and confusing. 🙄
The music video is – wait for it – BLACK AND WHITE! 🖤 How edgy! It “pares Suede’s live performance down to its starkest essence.” Which probably means it looks like they filmed it on a potato. It’s “glitching and distorting toward visual ruin.” Kind of like my reaction when I realize I’ve wasted three minutes of my life watching it. 😵💫
Watch below (if you dare!):
Broken Music For Broken People (Who Have Too Much Time On Their Hands)
Apparently, Suede “did a complete about-face” when creating this musical masterpiece. What started as a “soundtrack to a conceptual performance art piece” (because OF COURSE it did) was “put on ice.” Probably because it was even more pretentious than the album we’re actually getting. The “mass communal experience” of touring Autofiction (again, who remembers that?) was so “magnetic” that they had to “completely change” their plans. Translation: They realized they needed to sell some records, so they decided to write some vaguely depressing pop songs. 🎶
Antidepressants was recorded live with Ed Buller, who produced their first single, The Drowners, back in 1992. 👴 Wow, that was a long time ago. You know what else happened in 1992? Bill Clinton was elected president. Just saying. Suede “feel they are just starting.” No, sweeties, you’re just STARTING to get old.
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