Suede return with the announcement of Antidepressants, their tenth studio album, due for release 5th September 2025. Antidepressants finds the Platinum-selling, Mercury Prize winning NME God Like Genius-certified giants of British independent music charged with the energy that defines the unique power of their live shows.
Since the release of 2022’s Autofiction – Suede’s widely acclaimed ninth album and their highest-charting record in over 20 years, debuting at #2 in the UK Album Chart – the band has performed to the largest audiences of their career at shows in more than 14 different countries. Suede were described as “the most visceral live act on the planet today” by the London Evening Standard in a five star review of their summer 2024 Alexandra Palace concert last year. This fire and vitality is what has turbo-charged the Antidepressants sound.
Brand new single ‘Disintegrate’ is Antidepressants’ urgent opening statement. Released today after premiering live on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6Music show, the official music video directed by Chris Turner (Favourite Colour: Black Productions) is available to watch below. Shot in black and white, the video pares Suede’s live performance to its starkest essence, glitching and distorting towards visual ruin.
Introducing Suede’s tenth album, Brett Anderson says:
“If Autofiction was our punk record, Antidepressants is our post-punk record. It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called Antidepressants. This is broken music for broken people.”
As Suede started to create the new music that would shape Antidepressants, they did a complete about-face. What initially began life as the soundtrack to a conceptual performance art piece was put on ice. The mass communal experience that Suede encountered during the past three years of touring Autofiction was so magnetic that the band had to completely change what they were going to do next. In 2025, Suede are translating their approach to playing in front of a live audience directly into their new studio album.
Antidepressants was recorded live with Suede’s long-time producer Ed Buller, who first worked with the band when he produced their debut single ‘The Drowners’ in 1992. Yet, 35 years into their career, Suede feel they are just starting. “It is genuinely exciting being in this band. It feels like we’re still pushing creatively,” says Brett of the new album. “This is a widescreen and ambitious record,” adds bass player Mat Osman. “It’s a big stage record and it’s taking it up a gear.” This excitement drove the recording sessions, with Suede working between Belgium’s ICP Studios, London’s RAK, Sleeper Sounds, and RMV in Sweden.
As well as creating a sonic response to the feverish reception surrounding their shows, Antidepressants fully realises the fourth phase of Suede’s career and sees Brett Anderson undertaking some of his most personal songwriting. First single ‘Disintegrate’ is testament to this reflection, an anthemic acceptance of one’s own mortality flipping our universal fear of death into a dark celebration of demise, symbolic of the duality of Antidepressants.
A new live performance video for Antidepressants’ title track, filmed at Alexandra Palace in summer 2024 and edited and directed by drummer Simon Gilbert, was released last week to a rush of excitement from fans.
The release of Antidepressants will be surrounded by Suede Takeover – a special concert series over four nights hosted in different venues across London’s Southbank Centre throughout September 2025.
Suede Takeover is a full circle moment as the band return to the Southbank Centre for the first time since performing at the Royal Festival Hall for David Bowie’s Meltdown in 2002.
The performances will see Suede present their live show in completely new ways, stretching beyond the format of a rock gig. Brett Anderson said: “Expect old songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a couple of surprises.”
Suede Takeover begins at the Royal Festival Hall on 13th and 14th September with two surprise sets of Suede’s fiercely loved classics, hits and brand new music. On September 17th the band will perform in the Purcell Room for an unusual and intimate off-mic evening with Suede. The residency closes on 19th September in the Queen Elizabeth Hall, with Suede’s first-ever full orchestral headline show, in collaboration with the Paraorchestra.
Southbank Centre members can access an exclusive ticket presale on Wednesday 21st May at 10am. Fans who pre-order the album from the official Suede store can access a presale from Thursday 22nd May at 10am. General on sale begins on Friday 23rd May at 10am here.
Antidepressants will be available in multiple formats including CD (standard and deluxe), vinyl (standard and colour variants), picture disc LP, cassette and as a deluxe box set. All pre-orders are available here.
Suede Takeover Dates
September 2025
13 London, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
14 London, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre
17 London, Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
19 London, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
Antidepressants Track Listing
1. Disintegrate
2. Dancing With The Europeans
3. Antidepressants
4. Sweet Kid
5. The Sound And The Summer
6. Somewhere Between An Atom And A Star
7. Broken Music For Broken People
8. Trance State
9. Criminal Ways
10. June Rain
11. Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment
Antidepressants Deluxe CD Track Listing Also Includes:
12. Dirty Looks
13. Sharpening Knives
14. Overload
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