Suede announces 30th anniversary release of Dog Man Star

Reflecting on Dog Man Star 30, bassist and founding member Mat Osman said: “Your first album is songs you've been playing live for a long time. Generally, it's almost set. The songs evolved in a certain way and you're just trying to get them down. Dog Man Star was the first time where we just said, right, what happens if you push everything further? The slow songs, we take all the drums out. If we have a big closing song, we'll have a fucking orchestra. To start the record, let's have something that's on one chord, and it's just like a mantra. The kind of band we are, how far can we take it before it breaks?”

As part of Dog Man Star 30 celebrations Suede have released the Killing Of A Flash Boy Dog Man Star Tour Film, one of nine rare vignettes captured on location in London and Kent in 1994 by Mike Christie, the band’s long-term visual collaborator who went on to direct and produce the acclaimed 2018 documentary film, Suede: The Insatiable Ones.

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Dog Man Star is the follow up to Suede’s era-defining self-titled 1993 debut. That Mercury Prize-winning record shot to number one in the UK Album Chart, becoming the fastest-selling debut LP ever in the UK at that time.

The forthcoming anniversary edition will be released as a new half-speed master edition pressed as a 2LP, and a newly mastered 3CD edition. CD1 features the original classic album, CD2 includes the B-sides to all Dog Man Star-era single releases, and the full-length version of the non-album single "Stay Together". CD3 includes bonus tracks from the Dog Man Star period. A highly collectable “Dinked” edition of the album will be available on 2LP, including yellow gatefold packaging, and an exclusive two sided 7” single featuring the songs "The Living Dead (Piano Version)" and "La Puissance (The Power)" on vinyl for the first time.