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Rating: "you say what you want to say
your diamonds are drops of rain
your smile is your credit card
and your currency is your love
and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity"
Nine years after "Suede" comes this new creation from Brett Anderson and company. David Bowie remains their great love, no doubt about it (see "Astrogirl") even though the sounds become a bit more incisive at times, reminiscent of Shed Seven or the more intense works of Smiths (!). As the lyrics and title of the debut track of the album suggest, they have tried to infuse a lot of positivity into the tracks of the CD, starting with Anderson's reassuring and more mature voice, having shed the androgynous guise. Not to be missed is "One Hit To The Body," whose words are used so subtly that you hurt yourself when touching them:
"there’s a million constellations
up in the make believe sky
and a million dead end situations
you could leave behind"
An invitation to look forward and not backward. To think of a new morning, not last night. To see the sun rise without thinking of yesterday's sunset.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Positivity (02:55)
you say what you want to say
your diamonds are drops of rain
your smile is your credit card
and your currency is your love
and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity
watch out
so you play where you want to play
on the main streets where the creeps all pray
and you can feel like you're in dynasty
and you can be what you want to be
and the morning is for you
and the air is free
and the birds sing for you
and your positivity
and the cars crash for you
and the sunshine is free
and the sirens call you
yes the morning is for you
yes the air is free
and yes the world spins for you
and your positivity
positivity
02 Obsessions (04:11)
It's the way you pick your clothes off the floor
It's the way you scratch your skin when you yawn
It's the t-shirts that you choose like you're in the air force
Yeah the language that you use reacts like chemicals
Obsessions in my head don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sound and it moves with the underground
It's called obsession when you're around
It's the way you close the doors of my car
It's the stupid things you bought with my credit card
It's the way you don't read Camus or Bret Easton Ellis
Yeah the TCP you use it stings when we kiss
Obsessions in my head don't connect with my intellect
It's called obsession can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sound and it moves with the underground
It's called obsession when you're around
Obessions it's like sex it's simple and complex
It's called obsession can you handle it?
It's connected to the hip sound and it moves with the underground
It's called obsession when you're around
07 Astrogirl (04:34)
A strange relationship has started
A strange relationship indeed
It's like a watercolour forming
Between the pages of a dream
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
Where one on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
One on one is all you need
A strange experience has started
Between her molecules and me
It's like disease between us forming
From obsolete technology
And it's calling you
It's calling me
It's calling everyone to be
In a future world with an astrogirl
Where one on one is all you need
In a future world with an astrogirl
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
In a future world with an astrogirl
There'll be no obstacles you'll see
Cos we'll be making friends with the superman
Where the sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you and me
The sky goes on and on for you
The sky goes on and on
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"'A New Morning' thus represents a worthy conclusion for Suede."
"Brett delivers a stunning vocal performance, enriched by a celestial falsetto in the refrain of 'Astrogirl'."
