Suede
Night Thoughts

"We are in tune with 18-year-olds who buy vinyls, not with bands that adapt to the radio. I want to appeal more to this kind of people than the mainstream. I want to go completely against the current trends." These are the words of Brett Anderson when introducing the world to the seventh Suede album, the second after the reunion, and when commenting on his relationship with the friction in music today. Words that are confirmed by this heavy and sophisticated album.

If "Bloodsports" from 2013 reconnected the dots with the past and winked at pop sounds similar to those of "Coming Up," "Night Thoughts" can be compared to their masterpiece "Dog Man Star." Suede decides, with a more ambitious and atmospheric work, to move forward, and they do it the old-fashioned way, with a concept tied to a film by NME photographer Richard Sargent (included in the deluxe edition of the album) about a man who loses his son and immediately his entire life falls apart.

These are "night thoughts" full of pathos, suffering, and melancholy that run through and connect the various tracks of the album, recorded between London and Brussels and produced by the trusted Ed Buller, from the orchestral opening of "When You Are Young" to the ghost of "Beautiful Ones" present in "What I'm Trying To Tell You," passing through the hook of singles "Outsiders" and "Like Kids" up to the solemn finale of "The Fur & The Feathers."

The enduring fans of the English band have another handful of songs to sing with their hearts in their hands.