The veteran London indie-rockers return with their ninth LP, one that seeks to recapture the live rawness of their early days, with songs about youth and Richard Oakes’s guitar style comes to fore with a starker, more post-punk flavour. Arguably this still isn’t the heady days of the 90s with Bernard Butler, but for fans this is a re-energised Suede, produced with a live feel and Brett Anderson’s delivery a full foot-on-the-monitor gusto. Lyrically the idea, as in the title which refers to a genre mixing autobiography and fiction, (as is so much art), sometimes with an almost sentimental fondess, at other times with disturbance and fear. Standout tracks include, with youthful myth and memories, 15 Again, She Still Leads Me On, and That Boy On The Stage. Personality Disorder goes to starker sound and territory, and even leans towards a talkier Fall influence. Black Ice has a thumping bass line and, Shadow Self and It’s Always has echoes of older Suede with those classic sighing backing vocals. Overall a mixture of the old and new, which ticks all the passionate fan boxes for swaggering tragedy and verve. The album also comes with a short film directed by Katie Lambert (see below). Out on BMG.
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