Suede har släppt Autofiction: A Short Film, ett kreativt projekt och en visuell följeslagare till bandets kommande nionde studioalbum, Autofiction.

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Suedes två singlar; det kommande albumets öppningsspår ‘She Still Leads Me On’ och senaste släppet ‘15 Again’, sammanfattas nu visuellt i Autofiction: A Short Film, ett nutida drama om två människor som står vid ett känslomässigt avgörande vägskäl.

Kortfilmen, regisserad av Katie Lambert (MrMr Films) i samarbete med Suede, utforskar komplexiteten hos minnet, den upplevda sanningen, kommunikation och ångest i mänskliga relationer. Teman löper som en röd tråd genom Suedes kommande “Autofiction”; ett av Brett Andersons mest personliga album hittills.

Mat Osman, basist i Suede, berättar om Autofiction: A Short Film:

“With the Autofiction short film we didn´t want to make a normal performance video - instead we wanted to make a short film that overlapped at a Suede gig, with the band as just a minor part of the film, rather than at the centre. MrMr then came up with the idea of taking a crossroad in a couple´s life and playing with it in odd ways - moving backwards and forwards in time, seeing it through different sets of eyes, seeing their hopes and fears and memories all jumbled up too. Autofiction: A Short Film takes some of the themes of the album: youth and ageing, love and loss, fear and joy - sees them play out in the story of Chris and Hannah.”

Regissören Katie Lambert, MrMr, tillägger:

“Autofiction: A Short Film is about that moment in a relationship when it’s crunch time. The moment when you’re at a certain age and forever feels incredibly close. When you’re not sure if you’re with the one, or if you could find another one, or if that’s a crap societal construction anyway.

We loved the idea of creating a film which centers around a real-time night, and a gig - but that actually explores past, present and future all at once. Which is a mush and a mess of feelings; because isn’t that the memory soup we’re constantly swimming in anyway? This film felt like a true collaboration. Hannah and Chris have so much of both of us in them, this film stands as an Autofiction not just of Suede’s beautiful new music, but also of MrMr.”

Autofiction: A Short Film är Suedes första kortfilm och det senaste i en rad visuella samarbeten som startade redan under Suedes mest stilbildande år. Konsertfilmen från 1993, producerad tillsammans med Derek Jarman live på Londons Clapham Grand. 2015 års Night Thoughts, där Suede framförde albumet live i sin helhet, bildsatt med bandets egen stumfilm, regisserad av Roger Sargent, något som fick The Telegraph att ställa frågan, “Have Suede reinvented the album?”.

Autofiction är Suedes nionde studio-album och omnämns redan nu som “a superb new album” av The Times och “so moving, the punk ferocity protecting a deeply vulnerable core” av MOJO Magazine. I samband med albumsläppet ger sig bandet ut på en rad exklusiva butiksspelningar i Storbritannien och en handfull datum i Europa:

September 2022 UK Record Shop Tour

15 Banquet Records, Kingston (live performance) SOLD OUT
16 Rough Trade East, Shoreditch (live performance) SOLD OUT
17 Crash Records/Brudenell Social Club, Leeds (live performance) SOLD OUT
18 Rough Trade / Fleece, Bristol (live performance) SOLD OUT
19 HMV, Liverpool (signing and Q&A) SOLD OUT
19 HMV, Manchester (signing) SOLD OUT
20 Bear Tree Records, Sheffield (signing) SOLD OUT
20 Rough Trade, Nottingham (signing) SOLD OUT
21 Truck Records, Oxford (signing) SOLD OUT
21 Fopp, Cambridge (signing) SOLD OUT
22 Vinilo, Southampton (signing) SOLD OUT
22 HMV, Portsmouth (signing) SOLD OUT

October 2022 Intimate UK/EU Tour Dates

05 Electric Ballroom, London SOLD OUT
06 Electric Ballroom, London SOLD OUT
08 Melkweg – Oude Zaal, Amsterdam SOLD OUT
10 La Maroquinerie, Paris SOLD OUT
11 Gloria-Theatre, Cologne
12 Gruenspan, Hamburg

Autofiction släpps 16 september.

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