……..two years on the circuit playing songs from 20 years ago became tiring for a group that feels the "point of being a band is to make records".
"Eventually, you're faced with the choice - you either make a new record or you have to stop. We thought we'd try and make a new record."
Now in their 40s, Anderson and his four bandmates are older and wiser. But the frontman admits he "didn't want to make a record that sounded middle-aged".
"We wanted to have the same sensibility as a new band starting."
Suede seem to have turned the clock back to rekindle at least some of the passion and intensity they were famous for as twenty-somethings. Today, they are a successful post-1995 line-up - that is without Bernard Butler - but none of the new tracks quite captures the magic of early hits such as Animal Nitrate or Beautiful Ones.
Still, the album - opening with the rousing Barriers - is undeniably Suede, with dramatic key changes and Anderson's unmistakable flamboyant vocals.
