For those of you not yet in the know, SUEDE have given us a taster track of their sixth studio album (due to be released in March), Barriers, although they have stated that this will not be one of the singles from the album, so be sure to listen out for any sneaky previews that may be coming up in the next month!
You can download Barriers- for free!- from their page on viinyl.com
“After a year of sweating and bleeding over the record it’s finally finished so we wanted to get some music out there as soon as we could. ‘Barriers’ isn’t the first single but we are proud enough of it to just chuck it out there and thought that its pulsing, romantic swell somehow summed up the feel of the album quite nicely…” Brett Anderson, talking to NME
Click the artwork for information about the tracklisting!
It seems the band are returning to true Suede form. They have been working on this album, named Bloodsports, with Ed Buller, who produced their first three LPs. In an interview with The Quietus last year, when recording the album, Suede frontman Brett Anderson stated:
“Without wishing to be facetious, it sounds like Suede. We’re not trying to reinvent the sound of the band, that’d be a disastrous thing to do. I think that’s possibly where we went wrong on the last two albums, we didn’t know where to go with the sound so we were looking for another direction, with mixed results. With this it’s about great songs, it’s about great guitar hooks, it’s about a very powerful band sound. So it sounds like Suede. I think you’ll like it. Don’t worry, it doesn’t sound anything like the last album [laughs].
“It sounds like a cross between bits of Dog Man Star and bits of Coming Up. It’s not as light as Coming Up, not la la la hooky, though there’s pop moments. Ed Buller is a real fan of pop music that really connects, the [Marc] Bolan sound, so it’s edging in the big pop chorus direction. It feels like it’s going to be good.”
And, with the preview of Barriers, we’re certain Bloodsports will be very, very good.
