★★★★★
When Suede fully returned
- recordcollectormag.com
2014-07-17
★★★★★
Suede's first new release in 11 years has the task of wiping away bad memories of the ailing last gasp that was A New Morning and giving new vitality to a band that has always slunk around the darker edges of the Britpop scene. A recent compilation of Suede classics recently compiled by Brett Anderson showed he had a firm grasp on what were the strongest points in his band's back catalogue, but whether the magic could be recaptured was always an uncertainty...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-06-14
★★★★★
There's been quite a Britpop renaissance happening over the past two years. Indie bands that were huge in the 90s who either exploded in acrimonious circumstances or simply became irrelevant and disappeared have seemingly buried old grudges or found their inspiration once more. Suede fit nicely into the irrelevant group; once a controversial and influential band they survived the loss of Brett Butler but seemed to run out of steam and ideas in the early 2000s...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2013-06-26
★★★★★
Suede - Bloodsports
Hunky-dory Bloodsports heralds the welcome return of British band Suede after an over-10-year absence from the music scene. Who would have thought that a band that made its name during the heady years of the 1990s, when Britpop ruled the U.K. and indie U.S. airwaves, would make a comeback in 2013? Who would have thought that, after all these years, frontman Brett Anderson would still revile the music press-created "Britpop" tag that was stuck to Suede...
- www.adequacy.net
2013-04-15
★★★★★
Not quite a return to their storming, Britpop peak - but the signs are encouraging... After such a fall, it seemed impossible. That Suede - generally acknowledged to have launched Britpop in 1992 with debut single "The Drowners", a brilliantly brash, slo-mo amalgam of early Bowie and The Smiths - might somehow scramble back up the cliff face and make another record, was surely blue-sky thinking of the most desperately hopeful kind...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2013-04-04
★★★★★
Music Reviews
Suede Bloodsports
(Warner Music Group/Suede Ltd.)
Buy it from Insound
Hindsight is a very powerful idea. There are an infinite number of alternative histories of popular music where artists, labels and the public did things differently. How would the musical landscape look now if Bob Dylan had been dropped by Columbia after his first album? What if Lennon and McCartney had never met...
- www.noripcord.com
2013-04-04
★★★★★
Suede's comeback album is far better than it should be. Those who argue that this is just a retread of their early glory years are not being completely unfair. However, the band's grandiose glam pop was never particularly modern back then, so why would they suddenly become futuristic visionaries at this late point in their career? It makes more sense to evaluate Bloodsports on how well it fulfills the role of a Suede album, which it does quite well. There's impressively little filler...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
On their first album in 11 years, a re-formed and revitalised Suede appear to have succeeded in turning the clock back to 1996. Snowblind and the excellent Hit Me in particular reprise the thrilling pop dynamics of Trash and Beautiful Ones to fine effect. Brett Anderson's lyrics, meanwhile, so ridiculed during the late 1990s at the peak of his crack problem, are full of evocative imagery again, rather than sounding merely infantile...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-04-01
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