SUEDE
AUTOFICTION
BMG
★★★★
Suede’s best album since 1996’s Coming Up, they suddenly recapture an anger not perfected since their earliest days. Richard Oakes’ guitars have never been more untamed, Brett Anderson is as imperiously annoyed with life as he was in the So Young era and Simon Gilbert remains a bizarrely overlooked powerhouse drummer. Drive Myself Home is a classic trademark ballad, but it’s the variety of savage punk, pop and New Wave vitriol which impresses most: sinister post-punk march Black Ice is like nothing else from Suede, while also wildly addictive. Magnificent.