Antidepressants: Expanded

An alternative view of the Britpop survivors’ 2025 triumph. The reunited Oasis may have been the biggest news-makers in the world of Britpop in 2025, but the ongoing renaissance of fellow ’90s survivors Suede is another awe-inspiring phenomenon worthy of social-media saturation. Antidepressants marked the fifth entry in a comeback campaign that began back in 2013, and the album found Brett Anderson and the lads consistently hitting the sweet spot between swagger and grandeur on the instantly canonical “Dancing with the Europeans” and “Broken Music for Broken People”, while pushing themselves toward new frontiers in punky provocation (on “Antidepressants”) and suave New Romanticism (on “Trance State”). This expanded edition complements the record with a handful of equally bracing bonus tracks (like the “Fascination Street”-prowling goth-rocker “Sharpening Knives” and the menacing post-punk creeper “Medication”), plus a scrappy single, “Emotionally Unavailable”, that shows these veterans still have plenty of sass to burn. You also get the Record Store Day 2026 issue of Antidepressants in demo form, which proves that these glam icons are still striking even when they go easy on the proverbial make-up. Favourite track: “Antidepressants”