release date: Mar. 18, 2013
format: digital
[album rate: 2,5 / 5] [2,66]
producer: Ed Buller
label: Suede Ltd. / Sony Music - nationality: England, UK
Track highlights: 3. "It Starts and Ends With You" - 4. "Sabotage" - 10. "Faultlines"
6th studio album by Suede released through Sony Music Entertainment and produced by Ed Buller who produced the band's first three albums.
The album was generally met with positive reviews, which I find hard to understand. The band officially disbanded in the Fall of 2003 and Anderson and Butler were together for a short period of time with The Tears before Suede was brought back together in 2010 playing concerts everywhere. As a 'natural' consequence they started recording new material and out came this long-awaited album in 2013. Maybe they should just do like many other 'dinosaurs' of pop / rock: stay to the good old material that people basically want to hear, and just play live concerts - that's also where the money is, and I bet they do that well, but they don't seem to have anymore to say, artistically, and I think it's a bit sad. This release is not just another one in a series of lesser albums by Suede as it's easily the band's so far lowest artistic point.
Not recommended.
[ allmusic.com, The Guardian 4 / 5, NME 3,5 / 5 stars ]
