Lovers of bad sex in council houses, rejoice! Suede are back! Bloodsports sees the reunited fivesome bringing back the crunchingly glam guitars, the spiralling synths, Brett Anderson's yearning yelp, and a cracking selection of those huge choruses.
"It needed to sound like a band, but it couldn't possibly sound like self-parody," Brett Anderson told the Quietus earlier this month. "That's why we discarded so many songs, it was like a new band starting over – you don't hear half their new songs when they first get together. We needed to have this brutal sense of what or wasn't good enough."
Our impression is that what they've left in certainly is good enough. But what do you think? Let us know …
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