Album of the Day

With NIGHT THOUGHTS, The London Suede show their recent reunion was no mere cash grab; the new album is perhaps their best since DOG MAN STAR. And like that earlier collection, the music here is ambitious and cinematic (a feature film was created to accompany the songs), with nagging doubt in the face of time's relentless passage as a thematic throughline. If this is a more mature band than the Brit-pop heroes of the 1990s, it's by no means less exciting – such songs as “Outsiders” and “Like Kids” brim with passion and memorable hooks. With original producer Ed Buller back behind the boards, NIGHT THOUGHTS is the work of “a band carrying off a balancing act between their past and present in the grandest style,” to quote Mojo magazine, and an album sure to figure in best-of-the-year lists some 10 months from now.