On the road we’ll run like a river,
Headlights on, like a river we’ll run;
Through the parks and through the pavilions,
Like a river tonight we’ll run
Suede have never been short on communal catharsis, but their latest offering pushes that electricity into the red. “Dancing With The Europeans,” the third advance track from the forthcoming LP Antidepressants, bottles the euphoria of a tour‑bus fever dream and shakes it across four delirious minutes of serrated guitars and splash‑happy drums. Penned by the classic Anderson/Oakes/Codling/Osman/Gilbert axis and produced once again by sonic confidant Ed Buller, the track feels more than the spiritual sequel to 2022’s punk‑lean LP Autofiction—this is peak Suede, a band who were always more post-punk than the pejorative label “Brit-pop.”
Written after a sweat‑soaked night in Spain where the walls between band and audience were blissfully dissolved, the single marries elegiac post‑punk chords to an almost college rock‑bright chorus hook. “If Autofiction was our punk record, Antidepressants is our post‑punk record,” Anderson has said of Antidepresents. “Broken music for broken people.” Yet this track radiates something defiantly hopeful—an invitation to lose yourself in the volume of togetherness.
The song’s lyrics read like a manifesto for modern displacement, folding motorway imagery and “blue and yellow lights” into a chorus that reframes alienation as communion. Anderson’s repeated mantra—“I got a European stain within me and a European suffering”—lands somewhere between Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and a Ryanair boarding call, underscoring the album’s fascination with simulated connection and borrowed identities.
“I have this phrase: connecting in a disconnected world,” Brett Anderson recently told NME. “I feel as though the 21st Century is a paradox. The more we’re connected, the less we’re connected.
Director Chris Turner (Bloc Party, Hurts)’s brilliant music video for the song features a single-take performance shot during a secret, invitation-only gig at Bush Hall, London, this past June. Hand‑held Super‑16 stock wrestles with high‑contrast digital footage, capturing flailing limbs, impromptu stage invasions, and a tide of fans surging over the lip of the stage. The bruised‑neon palette echoes the Dean Chalkley artwork photography that will front the new album, while Steve Annis’s restless camera makes sure no bead of sweat goes undocumented. It already feels like required viewing for anyone who ever howled the chorus to “Beautiful Ones” in a club basement at 2 a.m.
Watch the video for “Dancing With The Europeans” below:
Tracked between Brussels’ ICP Studios, London’s RAK & Sleeper Sounds, and Stockholm’s RMV, Suede’s tenth studio outing promises angular guitars, analogue shadows, and the band’s perennial bruised romanticism. Key moments include the gale‑force opener “Disintegrate,” the title track’s serrated lullaby, and epic closer “Life Is Endless, Life Is a Moment.” Alan Moulder’s mix (pending final confirmation) and John Davis’s mastering give the record teeth and tenderness in equal measure.
Antidepressants is set for release on September 5th, 2025, via BMG/The Orchard.
Upcoming Southbank Centre residency:
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26 Aug 2025 — London, Clore Ballroom – Album‑premiere show
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12 Sep 2025 — London, Purcell Room – The Insatiable Ones screening + Q&A
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13 & 14 Sep 2025 — London, Royal Festival Hall – Hits & new music
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17 Sep 2025 — London, Purcell Room – Off‑Mic acoustic set
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19 Sep 2025 — London, Queen Elizabeth Hall – Orchestral concert with Paraorchestra
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