WORTH A LOOK?: ****

Lead singer Brett Anderson describes Suede’s new album Antidepressants as ‘broken music for broken people’ and this lead single wears its goth-flavoured punk influences defiantly.

• Read on for reasons including how to see Suede in London this year

Disintegrate muses on decay with Anderson singing: ‘Like those endless, hot summers. Like nature returned to dust. We walk on polluted beaches, feeling our body disintegrating. We’re cut down like daisies, like the tall poppies. Come down and Disintegrate with me.’

On the album Anderson adds: ‘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.’

It’s the band’s 10th studio album and is released 5 September with gigs at London’s Southbank Centre later that month already sold out.

Of course it’s live where Suede makes most sense and we last saw them in summer 2024 at Alexandra Palace Park with Manic Street Preachers.

We said: ‘Anderson mentions the next album, current long player and arguably the band’s best ever, Autofiction, is suitably plundered and the final 3 songs of the night are an opportunity to marvel at how brilliant the guitars sound but also to join Anderson in mass singalongs. It’s easily and perhaps unsurprisingly the best set we have seen live this year so far.’

Our need for Antidepressants has never been greater.

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