Suede have released optimistic new single ‘Dancing With The Europeans’ ahead of their tenth album

Suede have released new single ‘Dancing With The Europeans’, the third track to emerge from their upcoming tenth studio album ‘Antidepressants’.

The band have also announced additional dates for their Southbank Centre takeover, including an intimate performance of ‘Antidepressants’ in full at the Clore Ballroom on 26th August, and a screening of ‘The Insatiable Ones’ documentary with a Q&A session in the Purcell Room on 12th September. Special guests Bloodworm and Gazelle Twin have been confirmed for the Royal Festival Hall shows on 13th and 14th September respectively.

“There’s a sense of optimism about this song,” Brett Anderson says of ‘Dancing With The Europeans’. “I remember specifically we were doing a gig in Spain during the time we were writing this album. I was going through a bad time and at a low, personally. But we played this brilliant gig. There was a great connection between me and the audience. I thought of the phrase, dancing with the Europeans. There’s something about that word, Europeans, that I really like. The phrase summed up the experience of looking for connection in a disconnected world. This sense of, where do we find those bonds with our fellow human beings? That show in Spain broke down those barriers.”

Speaking about the Southbank Centre residency, Anderson adds: “It’s a chance for us to stretch beyond the usual rock gig format. We are all huge fans of the Southbank. It’s the heartbeat of the arts in London. Expect old songs, new songs, borrowed songs, blue songs, drama, melody, noise, sweat and a couple of surprises.”

‘Antidepressants’ follows 2022’s ‘Autofiction’. “If Autofiction was our punk record, Antidepressants is our post-punk record,” Anderson explains. “It’s about the tensions of modern life, the paranoia, the anxiety, the neurosis. We are all striving for connection in a disconnected world. This was the feel I wanted the songs to have. The album is called Antidepressants. This is broken music for broken people.”

The dates in full read:

AUGUST
26 Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre, London, UK

SEPTEMBER
12 Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, UK
13 Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK
14 Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK
17 Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London, UK
19 Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London, UK