ARTIST RESEARCH - Critical Kudos

In 2013 NME named their debut album, Suede, 78th best album ever:

However, their second album, Dog Man Star, the 31st best album ever:



Huge critical acclaim for most recent album:
Telegraph review:

Suede’s Night Thoughts essayed a grungy, trashy, kitchen-sink tone in keeping with their own origins as council estate aesthetes. Let’s put it this way, I don’t think I have ever seen so much vomiting in a music promo. It is probably not for everyone, involving psychological breakdown, murder and suicide, shot with a kind of Nan Goldin style low-life veracity. But songs and images worked in powerful conjunction, so each threw inner light on the other.
As the film progressed, backlights revealed the band behind the screen, so they became tiny figures in the unfolding narrative, swaying in the waters washing over a drowning man, singer Brett Anderson falling to his knees during the dramatic, despairing I Don’t Know How To Reach You whilst the onscreen protagonist fell apart at the seams. Bands have been using filmic visuals for decades but I have never seen a rock concert staged quite like this. It was a tightly conceived theatrical experience which compelled the audience to engage with unfamiliar material, a series of songs that flowing together to make a harmonious and greater whole. The long player has suffered commercially in the modern era of playlists and single track streaming but this, at least, suggested there are ways albums might evolve to resist such unbundling.

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