Dog Man Star
10/25/1994, LAUNCH, Lyndsey Parker
Scaling back a bit after an ostentatious and overarching debut,
Suede trade in some of their pageantry and pomp for harder- hitting riff-rock and bluesy horns. But Brett...
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Coming Up
4/8/1997, LAUNCH, Lyndsey Parker
A masterpiece of melodrama, with all the frills, trills and shrills one would expect from these elegant, extravagant Brit-poppers. Singer Brett Anderson prances and pouts...
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Coming Up
7/13/2005, AMG
Brett Anderson carried on after Bernard Butler's departure, adding a teenage guitarist and restructuring the intent of Suede, if not the sound, for their third album, Coming...
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Sci-Fi Lullabies
7/13/2005, AMG
Few debut singles have the impact of Suede's "The Drowners," which helped set the course to Britpop and established Suede as one of the U.K.'s most important bands. In that...
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Stay Together
4/26/1994, LAUNCH, Lyndsey Parker
The title track is a hauntingly beautiful, sweepingly amorous
aria that bookends this EP in two versions. In between is the
theatrical tear-jerker "The Living End," a raw...
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Stay Together
7/13/2005, AMG
Although the chorus is the weakest of Suede's five singles to this point, thanks to an ineffective falsetto backing vocal by Brett Anderson, a lush and lustful, pretty verse...
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Head Music
5/25/1999, LAUNCH, Ken Micallef
Pity poor Suede (the "London" bit is only in the U.S.). The old boys, very big on the other side of the Atlantic, have never cracked the metal-fisted,...
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Head Music
7/13/2005, AMG
Coming Up was every bit the triumphant comeback Brett Anderson and company were expecting and it was a terrific little record, but it did suggest that Suede had begun to...
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Suede
4/6/1993, LAUNCH, Lyndsey Parker
Remember the first time you heard the luscious, lustful "The Drowners" or the narcotic, histrionic "Animal Nitrate"? Remember how intense and glamorous those songs seemed...
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Suede
7/13/2005, AMG
Borrowing heavily from David Bowie and the Smiths, Suede forge a distinctively seductive sound on their eponymous album. Guitarist Bernard Butler has a talent for crafting...
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The Drowners
7/13/2005, AMG
Suede unveiled its stately glam sound in 1993, touching off the new wave of Britpop (Blur, Oasis, The Verve and Radiohead to follow).
"The Drowners" itself is a raucous...
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Dog Man Star
4/22/2005, AMG
Instead of following though on the Bowie-esque glam stomps of their debut, Suede concentrated on their darker, more melodramatic tendencies on their ambitious second album,...
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Head Music
7/13/2005, AMG
Coming Up was every bit the triumphant comeback Brett Anderson and company were expecting and it was a terrific little record, but it did suggest that Suede had begun to...
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A New Morning
7/13/2005, AMG
When Bernard Butler left the band all those many years ago, few would have guessed that with him left the dangerous, romantic noir vibe that fueled Suede's first two...
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