Suede Dog Star Man

Featuring bonus tracks and reimagined artwork, Suede’s essential second album Dog Man Star will be reissued later this year.

Originally released on 10 October 1994, the follow up to Suede’s era-defining self-titled 1993 debut exuded confidence and ambition.

Reflecting on Dog Man Star 30, bassist and founding member Mat Osman said: “Your first album is songs you’ve been playing live for a long time. Generally, it’s almost set. The songs evolved in a certain way and you’re just trying to get them down. Dog Man Star was the first time where we just said, right, what happens if you push everything further? The slow songs, we take all the drums out. If we have a big closing song, we’ll have a fucking orchestra. To start the record, let’s have something that’s on one chord, and it’s just like a mantra. The kind of band we are, how far can we take it before it breaks?”

Suede Dog Star Man

Confidence And Ambition

With Dog Man Star’s release came the dawn of Suede’s triumphant second act. Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler had parted company, but at the apex of their songwriting partnership stood Dog Man Star. Vast, sweeping strings, orchestral ballads and epic widescreen pieces intertwined with rock abrasion. Brett Anderson sang of urban anarchy, surreal, dream-like and apocalyptic visions. Suede had created a sophomore album that pushed the creative envelope and it still sounds as thrilling as ever today.

As part of Dog Man Star 30 celebrations Suede have released the Killing Of A Flash Boy Dog Man Star Tour Film, one of nine rare vignettes captured on location in London and Kent in 1994 by Mike Christie, the band’s long-term visual collaborator who went on to direct and produce the acclaimed 2018 documentary film, Suede: The Insatiable Ones. Watch it below:

Dog Man Star 30

Dog Man Star 30 will be released as a new half-speed master edition pressed on 2LP 180g black vinyl, and a newly mastered 3CD edition. CD1 features the original classic album, CD2 includes the B-sides to all Dog Man Star-era single releases, and the full-length version of the non-album single Stay Together. CD3 includes bonus tracks from the Dog Man Star period.

A highly collectable “Dinked” edition of the album will be available on 2LP, including yellow gatefold packaging, and an exclusive two sided 7″ single featuring the songs The Living Dead (Piano Version) and La Puissance (The Power) on vinyl for the first time. More Dog Man Star 30 releases are to be announced.

Art and design for Dog Man Star 30 has been undertaken for Suede by the band’s official designer and photographer Paul Khera, reimagining the iconic original photographs taken by Joanne Leonard and selected by Brett Anderson for the album’s front and back cover.

CD 1

1. Introducing The Band
2. We Are The Pigs
3. Heroine
4. The Wild Ones
5. Daddy’s Speeding
6. The Power
7. New Generation
8. This Hollywood Life
9. The 2 Of Us
10. Black Or Blue
11. The Asphalt World
12. Still Life

CD 2

1. My Dark Star
2. The Living Dead
3. Stay Together – long version
4. Killing Of A Flash Boy
5. Whipsnade
6. This World Needs A Father
7. Modern Boys
8. Eno’s Introducing The Band

CD3

1. La Puissance (The Power)
2. The Living Dead – piano version
3. We Believe in Showbiz – unreleased at time of recording
4. Still Life – orchestral version
5. The Wild Ones – original unedited version
6. The Asphalt World – original unedited version
7. Stay Together (Single Version)
8. NME Flexi

Due 4 October via Demon Music. To pre-order click here

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