Bloodsports

Bloodsports is a comeback album from Britpop band Suede released in 2013 and is their 6th studio album, it shows both confidence and certainty with our rockers still dripping brilliantly with those unexpected chord changes, and Brett Anderson's melodramatic lyrics suiting their vivid electrifying music. This album reignites the Suede chemistry and delivers 10 heartfelt, darkly romantic, majestic, menacing and carnal tracks; Suede plays ballads as if they're anthems and vice-versa. Anderson claims the album is all “about the endless carnal game of love” and tracks the path of a relationship from infatuation through estrangement to break-up. All I can say is that for me at least, they do it all brilliantly with the old Suede magic.

So here we are Suede fans, are you still out there? Of course you are and this is the album we've all been waiting for.This is the record arch rival Damon Albarn, wishes he could write, if only he wasn't so middle class, Brett and the boys have returned to spin tales of love, not the Animal Nitrate stories of yore, no this is pure Suede, stripped down to a new mature, but still achingly youthful collection that only Brett and the gang have always been so very capable of delivering.I'm going to go out on a limb and declare this to be their best album yet, even though I've only listened to it in its entirety twice, it's all here the wistful melancholy we have known and loved them for, but instead of the emphasis on drug fuelled uplifting despair we are treated to some superbly crafted songs of love, journeys into and out of love and the multiplicity that is human relationships.The instant grab tracks are opener Barriers the searing single It Starts and Ends With You, Sabotage, my favourite right now, and Hit Me, with all that I've ever loved about Suede. I'll be honest I wasn't expecting that much from this their sixth collection of songs, but boy I'm glad I took the leap of faith and pre-ordered Bloodsports.All that remains is to get out there and witness them perform these new old friends live in the flesh the way they always were, the most vital band of the 1990s reborn it seems some twenty years later, oh me of little faith.

brilliant album.suede are wonderful, and are definitely back, and better than ever.not quite the genius that is dog man star but equally as good as coming up, 'sabotage' is definitely up there with the best.a new album that has put fire in my belly for once.love it.

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Very Very Good!!! Mr. Mark Sadgrove

It took me a few listens to really appreciate these songs, but once you get into them they're fantastic, tracks 1-7 especially. I saw Suede perform some of these songs at the Alexandra Palace, in early 2013, and the songs are great live, too!

Suede are back and it's as if they've never been away.

Stop the CD at track eight and you won’t be disappointed. That is a small negative on a simply great album. Barriers and Hit Me are Suede at the very top of their game.