Some of the more disparaging reviews of Suede’s second album accused it of being pretentious, overblown and pompous – none of which was inaccurate. It was indulgent, and brilliantly so; and it was precisely that epic sense of scale and high drama that made it stand out so elegantly against its Britpop peers.
In fact, 1994’s Dog Man Star was a direct reaction against the more jingoistic, Carry On Up The Charts-elements of the scene; the arty, literate, gritty-glamorous child of an irreversibly broken home.
