Night Thoughts by Suede
"Night Thoughts" is the seventh studio album by English alternative rock band Suede. Produced by long-time collaborator Ed Buller, the album was released on 22 January 2016 on the Suede Ltd label. The album was accompanied by a feature film, directed by Roger Sargent. Night Thoughts received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 81, which indicates "universal acclaim", based on 9 reviews.
After safely negotiating those choppy comeback waters with 2013’s robust <i>Bloodsports</i>, Suede bed in for something altogether more ambitious. Their seventh album is a grand beast, decorously detailed with orchestras, sumptuous regret and desire untamed. Songs bleed into each other, there’s a wonderfully indulgent (and well-earned) reprise and Brett Anderson has rarely channelled his lithe, lascivious energy more effectively. He’s electric on “Outsiders” and “No Tomorrow”: that swagger now rich with self-reproach. “Pale Snow”, “I Can’t Give Her What She Wants” and “The Fur & the Feathers”, meanwhile, are exquisite portraits of a band using their gruelling past to move masterfully onto a new chapter.
