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Suede | A New Morning

Suede en forme.
CD, Nude

Tekst: Norbert Pek

Publicatiedatum: 29 september 2002

A look at the track list starts to make you wonder. Suede released a one-track promo about nine months ago, with the song Simon on it. It could already be regarded as a Suede en forme. An acoustic song that easily could be a single candidate, with the easy-to-remember opening lyrics "Open your heart and live again / And I open my heart and love again." But it's strange to see this song isn't on the album. Two things might have happened. The first possibility is that the rest of the song material is even better, and the second is that the song didn't fit on the album. It turns out to be a combination of both. It's not that the rest of the album is better, but it certainly is just as good. But the album is more electric than that one track. Not that every song is explosive — there are also easy parts, just like on every Suede album. It's just that they sound really full, like on Lost In TV and Astro Girls. The prominent acoustic guitars of Simon wouldn't have fit here, and it ended up as a b-side on the first single Positivity.

A New Morning resembles their third album, Coming Up, considerably. Not only are both the best Suede albums so far, but they also both open with the song you'll certainly catch onto first: That's Trash, on Coming Up, and Positivity, on A New Morning. Both albums have ten tracks (and I refuse to discuss a bonus track after a ten-minute wait — who still wants this, in the year 2002?), which are of the same quality and have the same attraction. A New Morning won't reach a big bunch of new fans, because you can either dig Brett Anderson's iron voice, or you can't. I can, and I'm really glad of it. Suede shows us they can still catch up with the expectations they once evoked by becoming "the new sensation" in 1993, and even improve what they did back then. Even though the themes of the songs remain very shallow (did he really write "Your smile is your credit card"?), the melody lines he sings still makes it all right. The band has the capacity to make the very first line catchy and melodic enough that you must keep on listening. You'll agree when you listen to the favorites Beautiful Loser and the firm Street Life. Guess you get the picture: The new Suede is what we hoped it to be. And let me finish by saying that the song Obsessions is so addictive it almost does become an obsession. Enjoy!