Suede have announced details of a 30th anniversary reissue of their seminal album ‘Dog Man Star’. Find out more below.
Due out on October 4 via Demon Music, the project comes in celebration of the sophomore album turning 30 this year, and comes alongside reimagined artwork and bonus tracks from the era.
Originally shared on October 10 1994, the LP marked the highly anticipated follow-up to Suede’s breakthrough, self-titled debut, and featured hits including ‘The Wild Ones’, ‘We Are The Pigs’, ‘Still Life’ and ‘Daddy’s Speeding’.
To mark three decades since the original release, Suede will re-release the album as a new half-speed master edition which will be available in both 2LP and 3CD formats.
For the latter, the first CD features the original album tracklist, while the second contains B-sides to all Dog Man Star-era single releases as well as the full-length version of the non-album single ‘Stay Together’. The third CD includes a range of bonus tracks, all recorded during the ‘Dog Man Star’ period.
The Vinyl edition will come on 180g black vinyl, including yellow gatefold packaging and an exclusive two-sided 7” single featuring ’The Living Dead (Piano Version)’ and ‘La Puissance (The Power)’ on vinyl for the first time. Visit here to pre-order.
Artwork for the reissue has been reimagined by the band’s official designer and photographer Paul Khera, who has put a new spin on the iconic original photographs taken by Joanne Leonard and selected by Brett Anderson for the album’s front and back cover. New sleeve notes by music journalist and biographer, Simon Price are also included.
“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,” said bassist and founding member Mat Osman of the project.
“‘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?”
To mark the milestone, Suede have also shared the Killing Of A Flash Boy tour film. It is one of nine rare vignettes captured on location in London and Kent in 1994 by the band’s visual collaborator Mike Christie. Christie would also go on to direct and produce the acclaimed 2018 documentary film, Suede: The Insatiable Ones. Check it out below.
The announcement of the forthcoming reissue comes shortly after Suede kicked off their huge joint tour with Manic Street Preachers last month at Llangollen International Eisteddfod 2024.
The bands first toured Europe together back in 1993, before last year they recreated the line-up for a string of US shows. They’ll also return for joint dates in Japan this winter.
Speaking to NME ahead of their US tour together in 2022, Bradfield recalled their joint 1994 tour, when the Manics were promoting their seminal third album ‘The Holy Bible’. “God almighty, that’s a long time ago, isn’t it? I vividly remember those gigs because Richey [Edwards, now missing guitarist] was coming back from what you might call his emotional event and was insisting that he wanted to come on the road,” he said.
“We were treading softly with Richey at some points, and Suede had lost Bernard Butler as their guitarist and were going through the transition of Richard Oakes coming into the band.”
After their opening night, Suede and Manic Street Preachers headed to Dublin, before playing Cardiff, Edinburgh, Manchester and Leeds. The tour will wrap up in London’s Alexandra Palace Park tomorrow (July 18). You can find any remaining, last-minute tickets here.
In other Suede news, the band recently announced that the recording of a new album is under way, and it’s going to be “noisy”, “unhinged” and “raw”, according to Brett Anderson. They debuted a taste of it at Isle Of Wight Festival earlier this month, playing a new track titled ‘Antidepressants’ during their set at the festival on June 23. Based around urgent post-punk guitar riffs and a typically Suede anthemic chorus, the song offers a preview of their self-described “raw”, new era.
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