Suede tell us about progress on their new “anarcho-punk” album: “These are songs of tribes and belonging”

Suede have shared with NME that they are “deep into” progress on their next album, which they describe as their “anarcho-punk” record. READ MORE: Suede: “I don’t think there’s any band of our generation still making records as vital as ours” The band were speaking to us from the red carpet of the Mercury Prize 2026 in Newcastle, where their 10th album ‘Antidepressants‘ was shortlisted alongside records by the likes of Jade, Kojey Radical, Nia Archives and Florence & The Machine, but ultimately lost to Raye’s ‘This Music May Contain Hope‘. Ahead of their performance of ‘Dancing With The Europeans’, the alt-rock veterans shared that they didn’t think too much of their chances of winning anyway, especially having already taken home the Mercury back in 1993 for their seminal self-titled debut album – not that they remember much about it. “The thing is, we didn’t think we were going to win and you didn’t have to perform if you won, so we started partying quite early that night,” said bassist Mat Osman of their big night in ’93. I can vaguely remember giving quite an incoherent speech. After that, everything is a bit of a blur.” Drummer Simon Gilbert also recalled “drinking most of t...