Suede

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.