By Star Weekly
BLOODSPORTS
What: Suede (Warner)
Details: visit suede.co.uk
After kickstarting (and then disowning) the 1990s Britpop movement, London group Suede drifted into self-parody before reaching an ignoble end. Or so it seemed.
A reunion three years ago gave the band a second wind.
Album opener Barriers sets the tone, part glam and part grit, part Bowie and part Smiths, armed with a chorus that sounds bigger – and more aggressive – than ever.
Tracks such as Sabotage and It Starts And Ends With You make a play for the mainstream, but Bloodsports is an album that belongs in the shadows.
Its more subdued second half is rife with the sort of dark obsessions and dangerous sexuality that have characterised the group’s best work.
