Here is the News: New Book, New Song, New Antidepressants

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TLDR: new book As One: Remaking Suede. Limited edition available for pre-orders, see Buying Guide below for limited version. New song ‘Emotionally Unavailable’ is streaming NOW and will be available physically on an expanded edition of Antidepressants. Signed: Antidepressants Expanded (Signed) | Suede | Suede

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As One: Remaking Suede, by Rodge Glass

Publication: 27 August 2026, New Modern

An intimate biography of one of the UK’s biggest bands during the remarkable second act of their 35-year career by the multi-award-winning author of nine books including his biography of polymath Alasdair Gray which won a Somerset Maugham Award for Nonfiction; and Joshua in the Sky: A Blood Memoir, which was nominated for Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Saltire Society Awards 2025, a chapter of the book winning the Anne Brown Essay Prize. Rodge bought his first Suede record aged 14 in 1992:

‘I was a fan of Suede for thirty years before I met anyone in the band. That meant I came to this project with certain expectations and assumptions, based on what I’d heard or seen from a distance. What a pleasure and privilege it’s been to have many of those assumptions exploded as I got to know the members of the band over the last three years. I like to build real relationships with my subjects, over a long period of time, through genuine connection, patience and openness. At some point in the process of writing As One, the band decided it was safe to let me in. Then they made themselves vulnerable. That’s hugely to their credit, and I think it allows us to tell a truer, more interesting story about the band than has been told before. Suede are one of the truly great British rock bands. Looking back and looking forward, I hope this book brings their extraordinary work to more people.’

That Rodge has been writing a book about Suede has long been an open secret in the fandom. Many Insatiable Ones joined an online evening with Rodge hosted by our Samantha Hand over a year ago to talk about our experiences and feelings following the band. But there’s far more to it than that. The award-winning writer has been granted unprecedented access to the band at home, backstage, in rehearsal and in the studio, hearing a lost album and private home recordings written about for the first time in As One. He has been embedded with the band as they've recorded, toured and promoted their music over the past three years.

As One is the first in-depth exploration of 21st Century Suede, offering illuminating portraits of both the five individuals and the band unit to reveal how they’ve managed it. The book documents Suede’s evolution from breakup to renewal, charting their reunion, five subsequent albums, and the enduring connection between band, music and audience over sixteen transformative years.

It is a multi-layered story of resilience, bloody-mindedness, recovery and reconnection; on growing up, getting sober and getting better at your life’s work. It follows the story of a band who dazzled in the pre-internet world, then blew it all up before managing, through learning hard lessons, to make some of their very best work in their fourth decade.

It is, in summary, essential reading for every Suede fan.

Buying Guide:

Important - there is a special limited edition of As One: Remaking Suede, by Rodge Glass. Only 1,200 copies with this ravishing variant cover; available for pre-order now, and once they’re gone, they’re… on eBay at an exorbitant markup. Click these links to secure your copy:

Rough Trade - with postcard

Resident Music - auto entry in competition to win a signed proof copy

Publisher New Modern have a helpful page with links to the two retailers above, and other major booksellers. Note HMV are currently offering two editions, one of which is signed by Rodge Glass.

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‘Emotionally Unavailable’

The new song was premiered by Steve Lamacq on BBC 6Music, and you can listen for yourself on all the major streaming services, click here.

Lyric video here.

Antidepressants: Expanded

Released: July 10 2026, BMG

In addition to ‘Emotionally Unavailable’, Antidepressants: Expanded also features ‘Medication’, previously only available in Japan. If you have not yet heard it, you’re in for a treat. The album also includes Antidepressants (Demos), 11 recordings of scratch tracks, demo takes and early mixes, and previously deluxe edition only tracks ‘Dirty Looks’, ‘Sharpening Knives’ and ‘Overload’. The album will be released digitally and on 3CD, and comes with a 36-page booklet. Unfortunately, it does not include China-only release ‘Always Remember I love You’.