Suede are recording their “noisy, unhinged and raw” new album

Suede have announced that the recording of a new album is under way, and it’s going to be “noisy”, “unhinged” and “raw”. Check out a live preview below.

Speaking at the Isle of Wight Festival 2024 over the weekend, Brett Anderson said he was “very excited” about the direction of the Britpop band’s forthcoming tenth studio record, which follows 2022’s ‘Autofiction‘.

“We’ve started recording it. It’s gonna to be noisy. It’s gonna to be strange,” he told Absolute Radio. “It’s gonna be more desperate and neurotic than ‘Autofiction.’ It’s more unhinged, and, in a way, kind of like straighter and more honest. Lots of the subject matter is quite exposed and raw, and just sort of playing in lots of ways. There’s no poetry on it. It’s just sort of like saying the way I feel about things.”

They debuted a new track titled ‘Antidepressants’ during their set at the festival on June 23, which was captured on video by a fan. Based around urgent post-punk guitar riffs and a typically Suede anthemic chorus, the song offers a preview of their self-described “raw”, new era.

Speaking to NME in 2022, Anderson teased the forthcoming record’s sound, saying that it would be “much more experimental.”

“In a funny way, as you get older you need to re-learn and re-remember what it’s like to be a new band. You can slowly drift away from those starting points and that exciting energy. We wanted to grab some of that back,” he said.

The new record will follow 2022’s ‘Autofiction‘, which was praised by NME for being “one of the greatest comebacks of the 21st Century”, in a four-star review. “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,” wrote Andrew Trendell.

This Friday (June 28), Suede embark on a co-headlining UK and Ireland tour with Manic Street Preachers, which will see them head to Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in North Wales, before ending at London’s Alexandra Park on July 18. Later in the summer, they’re set to perform a huge outdoor show on August 1 at the Audley End in Saffron Walden, Essex, alongside Shah and Johnny Marr.