Music
October, 1993
Robert ChristgauReviewers of Suede (Columbia) are in a pickle. The excitable British music press seems to think Suede will be the U.K.'s next big thing. But U.S. critics feel defensive because the band's posturing is the sort of thing red-blooded Americans usually disdain.Suede frontman Brett Anderson is everything Anglophobes can't stand--nasal, arch and flamboyant. Hetero in his private life, he flaunts an androgynous P.o.v. in his desperately sexy songs. He's given to quotes such as "I'm...
