Night Thoughts (album)
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| Studio album by Suede | ||||
| Released | 22 January 2016 | |||
| Recorded | 2014 | |||
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| Length | 47:39 | |||
| Label | Suede Ltd. | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 80/100 |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   |
| Consequence of Sound | B |
| Drowned In Sound | 8/10 |
| Exclaim! | 8/10 |
| The Guardian |  |
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| The New Zealand Herald | |
| Pitchfork | 7.5/10 |
| PopMatters |   |
| SPIN | 8/10 |
Night Thoughts is the seventh studio album by English alternative rock band Suede. Produced by long-time collaborator Ed Buller, the album was self-released on 22 January 2016 to widespread critical acclaim. It was accompanied by a feature film, directed by Roger Sargent. During their 2016 tour the band performed from behind a screen on which Sargent's film was projected during the first half of their set. The album is considered by some critics to be the band's finest work since Dog Man Star.
In January 2014 vocalist Brett Anderson revealed that Suede were in the middle of the writing process for a new album. Anderson mentioned that the band "want to carry on writing and pushing forward, so we're taking it somewhere else now." In March, keyboardist Neil Codling posted that Suede were in the studio recording the follow-up to Bloodsports (2013). The album, which was recorded in London and Brussels, features a full string section. The majority of the album was recorded in Belgium in one session, "record[ing] all the music [...] as one piece". Recording was produced by Ed Buller. The album was initially planned for release in 2015. Anderson explained the band wanted to "go somewhere else with [Night Thoughts], to make something with a bit more scope."
Codling compared "Outsiders" to the likes of "Trash" and "Beautiful Ones", calling it "a rallying cry for the excluded."
Mat Osman talked about the writing process:
"Neil and Richard pretty much wrote a record, they wrote about 45 minutes of music, lots of which ran into each other and lots of different themes re-emerged. We went to Belgium which were we started recording and basically recorded everything without Brett having any melodies or any words, which he’s never done before, so it was a bit of a leap in the dark. And then he sat down to write to the whole thing and we had no idea if it was going to work, it hasn’t ended up the same, uh since then we‘ve added about 4 songs and cut quite a lot of it and moved stuff around. It always started off as a record that was influenced by film music and stuff like that, the way you can have quite meandering pieces and scenes that reemerge, theres lots of stuff on the record that is made up of bits and pieces of other songs."
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