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Bloodsports "Suede: the fourth listening, still nothing. No special lighting, no highlight enough to be the focus of the review. Or at least the starting point.'s Hear a fifth time, then. And here she is lighting: as often happens, the reality was already there, under your nose (or ears) from the beginning.'s review of the disc had already begun long ago.
The comeback of the gang Brett Anderson was made to wait ten years because, according to the same leader, rather than resulting in a poor album "made of mediocre songs. Better not to publish anything." Not always, however, time is the best medicine, and not everything is "like wine." Here, then, what is the truth, this record is not a rare gem. Well packaged, but nothing more. Almost all of the 10 tracks that make up "Bloodposports" have excellent insights of departure, exciting rhythms that are of immediate attention, but do not have the determination and the strength to continue in the same vein. Disappoint a little 'expectations, in fact.
More than 20 from the start, with an artistic sometimes limping between misunderstandings, abandonment and riappacificamenti, training is still in great shape and we find the Suede ever, in all honesty intent to do what they had proved more than capable of doing in 90s: a britpop full of pathos, ambitious and introspective as he wants their best glam rock vein.
"Barriers" pierces the thin veil of cobwebs arisen over the years with a steady pace and a nice ride sound that leaps over the barriers ("jumps over the barriers" the refrain) and breaks down quickly in the confines of the next track "Snowblind" .
The main themes of the album are clear, and Anderson said, the blood, the love and passion drag the entire disk. The three elements that intertwine in the cover penetrate the cover and tracklist to the second track is an obvious example, that "This love is lifting, this blood is lifting you, snowblind over barriers". From the first single on, or taste of Britpop "It starts and ends with you", the disc begins to falter: the wink to his friend and Master David Bowie become gradually more frequent, until they become shameless in "Hit me ". The atmosphere becomes more dense as it flows towards "Sabotage" and "For the strangers" smoke melodrama that surrounds "Bloodsports" boils gently "What are you telling me?" and "Always." Finally, "Faultlines", a closure majestic, proud and dramatic. The centerpiece heard an album that makes the intensity and feeling his strength and departure.
"Bloodsports" is a disc popped up suddenly from the past, in the era of big returns. Nothing seems to have changed for Suede, maybe for the rest of the world, yes, but that does not matter and at the bottom is another story. They waited almost 10 years to get to the second decade of 2000, to present their new album and confirm with dignity the rights gained through years of hard work. One can hardly speak of a great return then, but in the 90s.
TRACKLIST
"Barriers"
"Snowblind"
"It starts and ends with you"
"Sabotage"
"For the strangers"
"Hit me"
"Sometimes I feel I'll float away"
"What are you not telling at me?"
"Always"
"Faultlines"
