The Blue Hour
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The Blue Hour
The Blue Hour is the eighth studio album by English alternative rock band Suede. The album was released on 21 September 2018. - Wikipedia
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Drowned in Sound
A thorny, earth-stained treasure.
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NME
On their eighth album, Brett Anderson and co. take the road less travelled, exploring rural decay with cinematic lushness.
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The Guardian
A wild ride into a rural nightmare.
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Pop Matters
Suede were never really part of the oafish Britpop scene and their dark, dramatic new album makes this more apparent than ever.
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musicOMH
The Blue Hour is a bold, accomplished effort from a band who still have plenty of ideas more than a quarter of century after they first emerged.
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The Independent
Suede offer up another sordid masterwork for their canon, while Dublin's indie folk band Villagers rediscover faith on their most daring record to date.
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Irish Times
Suede take their cinematic songs and put them through a symphonic wringer.
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The Young Folks
It’s all the best shades of blue, and it would be a shame if any rock fans missed out on it this fall.
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Clash Magazine
The band's mighty new iteration reaches its crescendo.
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The Student Playlist
Still bent on creativity and pushing their limits years after their Britpop contemporaries became lazy and fat, Suede have delivered one of their finest albums with ‘The Blue Hour’.
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Louder than War
Expansive and ambitious, sprawling but reassuringly familiar, The Blue Hour is the work of a band who are comfortable in their middle-aged skins but have never lost the joie de vivre of their younger selves.
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Under the Radar
While it may be overlong, overwrought perhaps, it's a worthwhile entry into their canon that should delight fans.
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Classic Pop Magazine
The Blue Hour’s no more compelling than a provincial pantomime script.
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Record Collector Magazine
If the thrill of the fight is one answer, The Blue Hour is up to it. Re-energised on all fronts, Suede are in the shape of their lives.
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Financial Times
The band employ an impasto of sounds and concoct a melodramatic rock choral with a heavy dose of eastern mysticism
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XS Noize
Alternating solemn, graceful orchestral sounds with raw, swaggering rock n roll, bursting with terrific guitars, The Blue Hour shows Suede reaching upwards and outwards to create a work of magnificent, epic beauty.
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All Music
Twenty-five years after their debut, they still retain that power, while finding ways to surprise within their firmly defined style.
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Loud and Quiet
They still can’t help but somehow sound uplifting, which is probably a good thing.
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God Is In The TV
In its conceit, its ambition, its willingness to frequently open itself up to ridicule, The Blue Hour is a towering, frightening, squalid and inspirational work of art.
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The Rockhaq Community
The Blue Hour combines effective alt-rock thrills with some striking experimentation, resulting in Suede’s third album in a row that’s way better than it has any reason to be.
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Cryptic Rock
The Blue Hour is a brilliant and stellar testament of that.
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Hotpress
Blue is the warmest colour.
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The Music
A fascinating and rewarding album with plenty to revel in on its surface while also offering a deep well of poetry and drama to explore at length.
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Richer Sounds Blog
This is a career highlight, in this case very possibly the band’s best.
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The Times
Suede tackle the savage realities of country life on The Blue Hour
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Dork
A career highlight that stands against the best of their 90s work.
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Rock Amino
Nevertheless this album was phenomenal, Suede haven’t only created their best album since they reformed, they’ve created one of the best albums of their career.
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Doubtful Sounds
It all amounts to a fascinating and rewarding album with plenty to revel in on its surface whilst also offering a deep well of poetry and drama to explore at length.
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PureRawk
"The Blue Hour" is a good addition to Suede's back catalogue and should go down well among their followers.
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From Sophia With Love
Despite the change of world into one that is grander, more rural, and more desolate, this tantalising journey into the lonely and dangerous world of The Blue Hour displays both Suede’s unflinching spirit and endless creative progression of the dark aura we fell in love with in 1993.
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Rik Rawling
They’ve never sounded as good as they do now.
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earthings!
On one hand, it remains familiar; on the other, you hope Suede would have pushed the boat out further.
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SpaceTasteMedical
A bit overwrought, then, but it’d be mortifying to be doing glam pop singles about bad sex, bins and bus stops at their age.
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This is Soundcheck
Suede have always been a treasure amongst the British music scene.
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