Suede Share New Tune “Trance State”
Antidepressants Due Out September 5 through BMG
Jun 11, 2025
Images by Dean Chalkley
Suede are releasing a brand new album, Antidepressants, on September 5 through BMG. Now they’ve shared its second single, “Trance State.” A press launch says the music is “is an anatomy of falling aside, and the surprising fact that comes with being at your lowest: an unmasking that presents your true, unvarnished self to the world.” Hear under.
Beforehand Suede shared its first single, “Disintegrate,” through a music video. It was one in every of our Songs of the Week.The band additionally beforehand launched a reside video for the album’s title observe, recorded final 12 months at their present at London’s Alexandra Palace.
Antidepressants is the Britpop band’s tenth album and follows their 2022 album, Autofiction. Suede are Brett Anderson (vocals), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums), Richard Oakes (guitars), and Neil Codling (keyboards).
Anderson had this to say concerning the album in a press launch: “If Autofiction was our punk report, Antidepressants is our post-punk report. It’s concerning the tensions of contemporary life, the paranoia, the nervousness, the neurosis. We’re all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the texture I wished the songs to have. The album is named Antidepressants. That is damaged music for damaged folks.”
Suede recorded the album reside within the studio with longtime producer Ed Buller, who they first labored with on their debut single, “The Drowners,” approach again in 1992. The band recorded at Belgium’s ICP Studios, in London at each RAK and Sleeper Sounds, and at RMV in Sweden.
“It’s genuinely thrilling being on this band. It seems like we’re nonetheless pushing creatively,” says Anderson of the brand new album.
Osman provides: “This can be a widescreen and impressive report. It’s a giant stage report and it’s taking it up a gear.”
Suede additionally introduced 4 reveals at London’s Southbank Centre they’re describing as a Suede Takeover. They occur this September. On September 13 and 14 they’ll carry out their hits and new music on the Royal Competition Corridor. On September 17 the band will do a present on the Purcell Room that’s described as “an uncommon and intimate off-mic night with Suede.” Then on September 19 Suede will carry out within the Queen Elizabeth Corridor with the Paraorchestra in what’s “Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline present.”
Anderson says of the Suede Takeover reveals: “Count on outdated songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a few surprises.”
Learn our rave evaluation of Autofiction right here.
Suede have been one of many main lights of the mid-’90s Britpop motion, releasing a string of heralded hit albums: 1993’s Suede, 1994’s Canine Man Star, 1996’s Coming Up, and 1999’s Head Music, in addition to 1997’s two-CD B-sides assortment, Sci-Fi Lullabies.
Suede initially broke-up in 2003 following the discharge of their poorly obtained fifth album, 2002’s A New Morning. They reformed in 2010 and made a full on comeback in 2013 with the discharge of Bloodsports, which was their first new album in over a decade and was very well-received by critics. That was adopted by 2016’s Evening Ideas, 2018’s The Blue Hour, and 2022’s Autofiction.
Learn our evaluation of The Blue Hour.
Learn our interview with Suede on The Blue Hour.
Learn our 2013 interview with Suede’s Brett Anderson on Bloodsports.
In 2019 we mirrored on the twenty fifth anniversary of Suede’s second album, Canine Man Star, and also you learn that retrospective right here.
Within the U.S. Suede technically go by the title The London Suede as a result of a authorized case within the Nineties, however we at all times confer with them as simply Suede.
