'Sci-Fi Lullabies' Suede's compilation of B-sides, is released on Nude on October 6. Covering their career from 'To The Birds' and 'My Insatiable One' off their debut single 'The Drowners', to the B-sides of singles taken from their 1996 album 'Coming Up', bassist Mat Osman sees it a vital piece of Suede's history. "People have always wanted to hear it, but there's never really been a convenient time. If we left it any longer, it was going to end up the world's biggest album."
Unusually for a collection comprised entirely of B-sides, all the songs are original compositions.
"I've never seen the point of cover version. If a song's really good, you leave well alone, and if it's really bad - you leave well alone. Why spend ten hours re-recording someone else's stuff when you could write one of your own? It's all to do with having a bit of confidence."
Osman explained that confidence was something the band could develop through the freedom of working on B-sides.
"There's a couple of later things that I'm really glad people are going to hear, because they're things we've ever tried that I don't know if we'd ever try on a single or album track'. 'WSD' is an incredibly old song that Brett wrote long before 'The Drowners'. We used to do it live, but one way or another, it didn't really work. So that was one whether we went and used the studio, and it came off and it doesn't sound like Suede. It's like our deformed child. A lot of later ones tend to be real skin-of-the-teeth stuff, because we were recording them really quickly and they've got a real charm."
"After Reading, we've ceased to exist and turned back to dust," before admitting they had started work on the new album.
Typed in by Allan Crooks.