Antidepressants

This defiant, death-defying record - as much joyride as memento mori - is the glorious reward. [Oct 2025, p.80]

Each of its 11 pieces flows with an immediacy that feels like separate parts of a similar narrative. .... Antidepressants seems to be a record Suede have been aching to make for years, maybe even decades.

A tenth studio album that feels less like a late-career coda and far more like a daring new beginning.

Somewhat of a companion piece to The Cure’s Songs of a Lost World, Antidepressants will not only be a new favourite of Suede fans, but also open a new audience up to them.

The opening trilogy of "Disintegrate," "Dancing with the Europeans," and the title track alone are some of the most thrilling moments in Suede's discography, especially since their 2013 reunion on Bloodsports.

33 years in, Suede aren't treading any water. [Oct 2025, p.78]

Overall, ‘Antidepressants’ is a solid, pleasantly dense record from a band who’ve been solid for decades yet.

The album showcases a band maturing gracefully and at the top of their game, unafraid of taking risks.

Great 10th albums by any artist are rare jewels indeed, but this is a late career triumph.

A subversive work, ‘Antidepressants’ is confrontational, unfiltered and arguably one of their most electrifying releases to date.

If Autofiction was the first entry in a new triptych, considering the same themes at a more mature stage of life, then Antidepressants is a fine middle panel: a warp of the formula that is considered and progressive, if not as immediately thrilling. .... What a blessing that they’re using this renewed energy to keep complicating and interrogating their own artistry.

Improbably, they've pulled off the rarest of feats: a middle-aged rock band who remain interesting and invigorated, going from strength to strength. [Sep 2025, p.101]