Suede are back! With new material and everything! More than a decade since 2002's A New Morning – a record so tired-sounding Brett Anderson broke up the band – Suede have announced a brand new album, Bloodsports. While the first single, It Starts and Ends with You, will be released in February, the band have given away a new song as a free download.
"Barriers isn't the first single but we are proud of it enough just to chuck it out there and thought that its pulsing, romantic swell somehow summed up the feel of the album quite nicely," Anderson said. He's right – all the post-1994 Suede attributes are there: big sweeping guitars, lyrics about "lipstick traces", echo-laden vocals that sound slightly muddled amid all the lashings of Epic. Unfortunately there's nothing as glaringly daft as Savoir Faire's opening line "She live in a house, she stupid as a mouse", but you can't have it all.
• Bloodsports is due in March. You can download Barriers for free here.
