The landmark 1996 album reconstructed from BBC sessions and live recordings! Suede’s commercial high watermark came in 1996 with Coming Up. The 1995 addition to the line-up of lead guitarist Richard Oakes and keyboard player Neil Codling had given the band a new impetus and focus. At the very pinnacle of ‘Britpop’ – a scene they’d helped inspire but fiercely operated outside of – roared back with an adrenalin rush of new Suede classics.
The first missive from ‘Coming Up’ was the trailblazing ‘Trash’, which reached No. 3 in the UK chart – a joint career-best for the band. That was followed into the Top 10 over the next twelve months by four more hit singles from the album – ‘Beautiful Ones’, ‘Lazy’, ‘Saturday Night’, and ‘Filmstar’.
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Limited Deluxe CD Edition with three bonus tracks.
The story of Suede has never been one of steady linear progression, but even so, 2022’s Autofiction sent their needles zigzagging all over the charts, a tectonic reboot that shifted the direction of their already impressive comeback era.
Antidepressants plugs into similar post-punk energies – Killing Joke, The Chameleons, The Cure – but as the PiL-like title track’s untethered jolt and jeer shows, Suede’s emotional safety catches and musical circuit breakers are very much off.
Through a background chatter of mechanised voices, Brett Anderson cuts through sharper and stranger than ever, rallying damaged troops on ‘Broken Music for Broken People’, seeking connection on the euphoric fugue of…
01. The Drowners (Live at Brixton Academy, 1993)
02. Brass in Pocket
03. Just a Girl (Very Early Demo, 1990)
04. Have You Ever Been This Low?
05. Graffiti Woman
06. Europe Is Our Playground (Live from The Paradiso, Amsterdam, 1996)
07. Poor Little Rich Girl (feat. Raissa)
08. Outsiders
09. Manipulation
10. Personality Disorder
11. Black Ice (Live from The Paradiso, 1996)
12. Shadow Self (Demo)
13. Disintegrate (Demo)
14. Antidepressants (Live, Manchester, 2023)
15. Criminal Ways