Digitally remastered and expanded three disc (two CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 1996 album. Suede recruited 17-year-old guitarist Richard Oakes, following the departure of Bernard Butler. Oakes joined for the Dog Man Star tour, after which the band returned to the studio to record their third album. At this point they also enlisted keyboard player Neil Codling. The resulting album, issued in 1996, entered the album charts at # 1 and spawned five Top Ten singles and is their biggest-selling album. This deluxe edition features the non-album b-sides as well as demos from the collections of Brett Anderson, Richard Oakes and Neil Codling. The DVD features the previously unreleased concert video Live At The Roundhouse featuring a guest appearance from Neil Tennant. Also featured is Suede In Paris, a newly-discovered full-length film of Richard Oakes' first ever concert with the band in October 1994. The bonus feature is a February 2011 interview with Brett, Richard and Neil about the making of the album, along with a short film put together by Simon Gilbert from his own contemporary camcorder footage.
2013 album from the British band (AKA London Suede), their first album of new material in 11 years. Throughout the '90s, the band were one of the biggest best UK bands to come from the Britpop music scene. While guitarist Bernard Butler is not involved with the band, all five of the post Butler members are present and accounted for. Features the first single 'It Starts And Ends With You'.
Limited edition collectors format of numbered 15.000 copies. Beautifully designed hardback book in matt laminate finish 52 page book, in heavy paperstock. Night Thoughts is a quintessentially Suede title: specific yet vague, a notion that seems either romantic or sad depending on perspective. Twenty years, a decade of which was spent in a split, certainly has shifted Suede's perspective, particularly that of leader Brett Anderson. In his younger years, Anderson couldn't resist the tragic but as he settles into middle age, his work bears an unmistakable undercurrent of gratitude: no longer racing against a nuclear sunset, he's meditating upon the elongated stillness of night. It's a shift of attitude, a maturation mirrored by Suede consolidating their strengths.
Having established that their 21st century reunion was not a passing thing, Suede decided to stretch themselves with The Blue Hour, the third record they've made since reuniting in 2013. Unlike that year's Bloodsports or its 2016 sequel Night Thoughts, The Blue Hour isn't produced by Ed Buller, who helmed their three big records of the 1990s (Suede, Dog Man Star, Coming Up), it's the work of Alan Moulder, the veteran producer whose fingerprints were all over alternative rock of the '90s that had little to do with Brit-pop.
Digitally remastered and expanded three disc (two CDs + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 1999 album. Head Music was the second album by the second Suede line-up, and was released in May 1999. It entered the album charts at # 1 and was home to four hit singles. This deluxe edition features the non-album b-sides as well as demos from the collections of Brett Anderson and Richard Oakes. The DVD contains the videos for the singles and the TV program Head Music made for Channel 4, appearing for the first time on DVD. It features a performance to an invited audience, intercut with interview footage. The bonus feature is a February 2011 interview with Brett, Richard and Neil about the making of the album, along with a short film put together by Simon Gilbert from his own contemporary camcorder footage.
Night Thoughts is a quintessentially Suede title: specific yet vague, a notion that seems either romantic or sad depending on perspective. Twenty years, a decade of which was spent in a split, certainly has shifted Suede's perspective, particularly that of leader Brett Anderson. In his younger years, Anderson couldn't resist the tragic but as he settles into middle age, his work bears an unmistakable undercurrent of gratitude: no longer racing against a nuclear sunset, he's meditating upon the elongated stillness of night. It's a shift of attitude, a maturation mirrored by Suede consolidating their strengths. Leaving behind frivolous trash – it is, after all, a sound that suits the young – Suede embrace their inherent glamorous grandeur, playing miniatures as if they were epics while reining in excess.
Demon Music are releasing a new Suede compilation called Beautiful Ones: The Best of Suede 1992-2018 which will be available as a 4CD, 6LP vinyl and 2LPs packages.