I used to adore Suede and think they could do virtually no wrong around the time of Dog Man Star and Coming Up, (plus all those awesome b-sides on Sci-Fi Lullabies) but I wasn't going to bother with the new one since IMHO they crashed pretty hard after that and even Brett Anderson's reunion with Bernard Butler in The Tears was a little tepid for me. However, Bloodsports has been getting such good reviews that I had to go for it, if only for old times sake.
It's actually a pretty strong album that harkens back to DMS and CU, though at 39 minutes it lacks the former album's decadent sprawl, but it's got that spiky glam rock and soaring melodrama that made me like the band in the first place and it gives me something else to spin back to back to back with Bowie's The Next Day and Johnny Marr's The Messenger.
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