Suede, the darkly glamorous combo who kicked off the Britpop trend in the early 1990s are back with a new video from their upcoming release, Bloodsports.
Bloodsports will be Suede’s first album of new material since 2002’s A New Morning and reunites the band with producer Ed Buller, who worked with Suede on their first three albums. Lead-singer Brett Anderson told the NME that the album will sound like cross between their classic Dog Man Star and Coming Up. Anderson also described the lyrics as being “about lust, it’s about the chase, it’s about the endless carnal game of love.”
Some things never change, I suppose. Bloodsports drops some time in March. The album’s first single is “Barriers”:
Here’s the video for “It Starts And Ends With You”—admittedly, at first I was skeptical, but by the end the undeniable catchiness of the number won me over: