Antidepressants by Suede

Antidepressants by Suede released in 2025.
A band that can be classified in the world of alternative rock, more precisely they are among the leading exponents of Britpop along with Oasis, Blur, and Pulp, a musical movement of the '90s based on a revival of melodic British pop music, guitar-based and inspired by the '60s and '70s. 
Distant and deep roots that definitely emerge upon listening, with tracks made of catchy melodies, essential and captivating rhythms, beautiful choruses and fundamental themes in the compositions, solid structures for the short but compelling songs, all played with undeniable performing skills.

It really feels like taking a leap into the past, but not as far back as the leaps I love to make the most, my fault, I'm the troglodyte.

They stop right there in the middle, in the sound of the eighties and nineties and they do it so well that while listening I found clear similarities with the world of U2's rock from those two decades, which says everything about the quality that emerges in this album.

The rhythm section with Simon Gilbert on drums and Mat Osman on bass is beautiful, precise and powerful as needed, but it's Brett Anderson's voice that is the strong point, beautiful in tone, range, and interpretative ability.

Richard Oakes' guitars are mainly rhythmic to support the basic tempo and enrich the drum and bass foundations, then in the choruses they light up with short riffs and sometimes "scholarly" solos but always excellently executed, creating open atmospheres, making the tracks "breathe" with "grandeur" without ever exploding (or imploding, depending on your point of view) into classic rock, maintaining the measured attitude and the structure, the plot, the atmosphere optimally created by Neil Codling on synthesizers and piano.

Certainly the compositions are excellent, every track is a potential hit and would definitely have been one for the mainstream public in the nineties, even a huge one in my opinion.

The production of this beautiful album is excellent, I recommend it to all lovers of the genre. 

I can't put it in my personal ranking of albums of 2025, it wouldn't be fair, the musical spectrum in which I move and feel comfortable is definitely more extreme in terms of complexity, epicness, strength, and emotional impact, but it's a great album that from my point of view is Easy Listening, suitable for daily listening and as a bridge between the things we experience, capable of giving meaning to a moment of ordinary life, that doesn't force us to sit there thinking about what we're listening to, that doesn't demand our attention but keeps us company or rather accompanies us. A melodic album, at times romantic, at times nostalgic, full of emotions and in which the moments of tension that sometimes arise are still positive tensions.

I thank whoever recommended it to me because it's spinning on the turntable and I like it a lot and not just me, which is not common in this house, and that's what matters.

Tracklist
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 Criminal Ways
9 Trance State
10 June Rain
11 Life Is Endless, Life Is A Moment

Line-Up

Brett Anderson – vocals, design
Mat Osman – bass
Neil Codling – synthesizer, piano
Richard Oakes – guitars
Simon Gilbert – drums
With

Jordon Aniseed – additional vocals (tracks 1, 5, 7, 9)
Ed Buller – production, engineering
Giovanni Lando, Ben Webster, Sam Wilkins – engineering (ICP Studios)
Jamie Sprosen – engineering (Sleeper Sounds)
Vilma Colling, Linn Fijal, Nathalie Martinez – engineering (RMV Studio, 1–11)
Sam Button – engineering (RAK Studios, 1–11)
Andrew Scheps – mixing (Punkerpad UK and RAK, 1–11)
Caesar Edmunds – mixing (Battery Studios, 12–14)
Matt Colton - mastering (Metropolis Studios)
Paul Khera – design