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  • Audio CD (6 Jun 2005)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Independiente
  • ASIN: B0007ZATIQ
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,445 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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The title might suit the aura of faltering romanticism but Here Comes The Tears will offer nothing but a happy ending for Suede disciples who once mourned the avoidable loss of a glorious future. Unarguably one of British rock music’s most eminent severed alliances, low-rent hedonist Brett Anderson and recalcitrant guitar deity Bernard Butler permanently parted company during the fractious recording sessions for 1994’s smouldering masterpiece Dog Man Star. Like Strummer and Jones, Lennon and McCartney and Morrissey and Marr, the Anderson Butler union belongs to a distinguished line of brilliant but volatile songwriting partnerships acrimoniously (and often prematurely) ripped apart under exacting circumstances. Finally, the estranged pair conclude their dignified silence and pick up the torch where the aspirational Dog Man Star adjourned a generation ago. Naturally, Here Comes The Tears - while not attempting to atone for any might-have-beens - sounds instinctively like the best record Suede or the solo Bernard Butler never made and duly rewards by attaining some kind of ego-balancing equilibrium between the chemical rush of Anderson’s decadent glam pop expression ("Lovers", "Refugees") and Butler’s more stately and wide-angle production landscapes. Modesty being a virtue, it’s interesting to contrast the elephantine brass bombast of Dog Man Star's (admittedly wonderful) finale "Still Life" with the manner in which "A Love As Strong As Death" asserts its grandiosity with a reticent mulling of harp, piano and Hawaiian guitar. There’s simply too much genius here to mention but "Beautiful Pain" (cold turkey agony with a truly euphoric pop chorus) and the refracting, rain-soaked atmospherics of "The Asylum" simply beg acquaintance. A stunning comeback. --Kevin Maidment

About the Artists
The Tears bring Suede's Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler are back together again. No surprise to Bernard: "I always knew sooner or later it would happen," he says. And Brett too, for his part, seemed in the end to almost hasten the demise of Suede that he might meet up with Bernard and pop the question no-one else had ever dared form in their heads for the past 10 years.

"The first time we met [again] in December 2003, he said he wanted to form a band," says Bernard. "Obviously, for years, I'd always wanted make the record." And so they began, the best British song-writing duo since Morrissey and Marr, working together once again, writing with no particular aim in sight. Only later did they realise they were really onto something, something they had left undone in 1994, when Bernard walked out of Suede ahead of the release of their second album, Dog Man Star. Slowly, yet inexorably, Here Come The Tears came to be a shared labour of love; the thing that would define the year for both Brett and Bernard. "The music is really, really inspiring," says Brett. "I don't want to get dewy-eyed, but it's so exciting to work with someone who cares so much about it. For years and years after Bernard left Suede it was me running the show, but now the stakes are raised. I feel like we are duelling with each other, in some kind of friendly competition. When we were at our best it was always like that, each trying to better each other."

From the outside Here Comes The Tears certainly feels like a work high on confidence, and performed by people at the peak of their artistic powers. Brett's voice is stunning as never before – the little break in "Two Creatures", the exquisite and moving swoops of "Fallen Idol" – while Bernard simply plays guitar like no-one else alive. "When we first started Suede I wanted it to be like The Smiths, where the records were ethereal and complex and overdubbed, but the live show was just one big electric guitar ringing out," says Bernard. "I've not had either of those platforms for years." Here he plays like a man on a mission to show us everything we've been missing. A number of songs mesmerise with the chiming, complex simplicity of Bernard's guitars. At the album's centre, the dark and troubled "Brave New Century" features amazing arcs of guitar that alternately slice through the speakers and crash around your ears like so much falling masonry. Elsewhere, on the wonderfully epic "Apollo 13", the simple swaying waltz of the early verses is lifted into high orbit by the rocket trajectories of Bernard's symphonies of guitar, which call to mind nothing so much as slow-motion fireworks bursting elaborately overhead, complete with suitably awed oohs and aahs.

Largely, though, Here Come The Tears is dominated by pop songs; brazen and beautiful pop songs, delivered in perfectly formed packages. Opening track and first single, "Refugees" is swaggering, instant and majestic, and at 2'54" so brief you need to blast it again as soon as it's over.

Here Come The Tears was produced by Bernard and largely recorded at home. For him making this record as he wanted to make it was a huge part of a long healing process. "When all that [being in and leaving Suede] happens to you when you're 22/23, you don't deal with it," he says. "I hated everyone and everything, and felt confused all the time. I couldn't see through the things I wanted to do." Now, however, Bernard has been able to intricately build songs according to the grand vision in his head, and the result is an astonishing wall of sound that at times feels like Spector producing the Spiders From Mars covering "Bridge Over Troubled Water", only bigger.

The Tears are Brett Anderson (vocals), Bernard Butler (guitar), Nathan Fisher (bass), Makoto Sakamoto (drums) and Will Foster (keyboards).

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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Anderson & Butler reunite..., 23 April 2006
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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There is a rumour stated in John Harris' excellent account of the fall and rise of Britpop 'The Last Party' that somewhere between the 4th and 5th Suede album Bernard Butler offered to write songs for Anderson & co. 'Here Come the Tears' feels very like that - produced by Butler, with the musicians Butler has played with since the 1990s, and with the symphonic-pop he's made as a solo-artist and in collaboration with David McAlmont and Neneh Cherry. This might be a good thing, as Suede post-Butler had issues - 'Coming Up' was fine pop (the 'Rio' of Britpop?), but 'Head Music' was patchy stuff, drifting between Soft Cell-electropop and a band who sounded like a bad imitation of themselves. The final Suede LP was long in the making and involved the ditching of multiple songs, as it was reported in the press as a return to the sound of 'Suede' and 'Dog Man Star'...which is all a shame as Anderson & Butler's early work on those first two Suede albums and the related singles (see the first disc of 'Sci Fi Lullabies') ranks as some of the greatest music of the 1990s.

Butler is probably in a better place - recording an album proper with former Thieves-singer David McAlmont (they had previously recorded the singles 'Yes' and 'You Do' prior a split)and banishing the flop of second album 'Friends and Lovers.' 'Here Come the Tears' (the title apparently nods to Brian Eno's 'Here Come the Warm Jets') came at the right time, and conformed to Butler's symphonic, Spectoresque pop that has been his stock-in-trade since exiting shortly before 'Dog Man Star' was released.

I don't agree with the enthuasistic reviews here - 'Here Come The Tears' is OK, has the odd great moment (notably initial single 'Refugees')but certainly doesn't meet the standard of Anderson & Butler's prior collaboration. Perhaps this is unfair, it might be true that its unfair to compare The Tears to their prior work - but it's there.

I can't understand why this album didn't do well - there's lots of the kind of anthemic MOR-indie style that is popular these days - Coldplay, Keane, Embrace, Morrissey, that kind of thing. Which doesn't mean its bad, but a bit tame for my taste - then again, having rediscovered 'Dog Man Star' a few years ago, I'm unlikely to be as enamoured with this set? Maybe these songs were too obvious, too radio-friendly and too hit sounding? - trying too hard to flog their wares?

Still, it's all pretty listenable and would sound fine sitting round a flat while you're in love, buying shoes, or as dinner party background music. There's nothing as adventerous or as wild as 'Stay Together', 'The Wild Ones', 'Whipsnade', 'High Rising', 'Sleeping Pills', 'My Insatiable One', or 'She's Not Dead.' Unfair to say maybe, but there isn't. 'Here Come the Tears' is the best album Anderson has been involved with since 'Coming Up' - though the best songs here are more akin to Suede's 'Obsessions' than their earlier work. Perhaps if we lived in a singles culture, The Tears could have broke Anderson & Butler back in with a single or two, an e.p. or a mini-LP?

I hope the relative commercial and critical failure of 'Here Come the Tears' doesn't mean the end of their reunion - like the Go-Betweens, it might take an album or two to deliver a classic. 'Here Come the Tears' is better than the last two Morrissey albums, certainly shows promise - whether it's Butler's feedback on 'The Ghost of You' (reminded me a little of 'Daddy's Speeding'), the jangly joy that is 'Autograph' (The Smiths comparison is more than valid), or the catchiness of the two singles 'Refugees' and 'Lovers.' The last track suffers from having a title far too similar to The The's 'Love is Stronger Than Death'. Still, all is well when Brett mentions streets on the first track and offers an animal reference a track or two later! More please and better!
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20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic album, this band deserves success..., 8 May 2005
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With Coldplay and Oasis still churning out boaring rock to the masses, The Tears offer this fantastic record for the minority who don't worship Chris Martin, or Noel 'n' Liam.

The Quality of the songs is simply outstanding - 13 tracks and not one dudd.

From the all to short opener "Refugees" to the delicate closer "A Love as Strong as Death" the record is consistant, full on and original. Brett Anderson's vocals are at their best, as is Bernard's guitar noodling action.

Highlights (the whole album really) include Smiths-lite "Autograph", epic stunner "Apollo 13", the drum blistering intro of "Lovers", the dramatic "The Ghost of You" and the glam crunch of "Brave New Century".

A minor criticism would be the occasional triteness of Anderson's lyrics, though on the whole they have improved since the latter days of Suede.

One thing that can't be faulted in the melodies, so the odd duff lyric really doesn't matter - and its certainly better than intelligent words set to dull music.

Anderson and Butler shine togther - and both have proved themselves induvidually, but there was always something lacking...this record. Let's just hope they make another one...and judging by new song "Europe After the Rain" already being played at gigs, they will better this.

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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Kicking broken glass under nuclear skies in council houses.., 22 Jun 2005
By Mr. D. R. Wall "Liminal" (Tokyo) - See all my reviews
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When wondering whether to buy this album, just remember that 'best Bernard/Butler album since Dog Man Star' means much the same as new Oasis album being 'best since Morning Glory' - which is damning them with faint praise. If like me, however, you thought 'Coming Up' was quite commendable, then that definitely makes The Tears the better bet for this month's blokes-with-guitars music purchase.
The glass will definitely look half-full if you're still wearing skinny band Ts and stuck in a 1996 timewarp, but I think most people had a gutful of it first time round. Brett aside for a moment, The Tears oddly sounds most like POST-Butler Suede, opening song Refugees being to my ears a musical carbon copy of Trash. Bernard still has some creative juices left (experiments with dodgy drum machines on track 3 aside) - his noodlings on Apollo 13 are pretty and nearest to Asphalt World-Butler. Most of the tracks though - Lovers, Autograph, Two Creatures, Refugees - are good efforts but poppy and too similar to each other.
I'd say Brett's to blame for most of the mediocrity though. Yes he's stopped rhyming 'house' and 'mouse', but 'we'll go wear/ the crowds don't stare/ and no-one laughs at the clothes we wear' is hardly inspired. His view of disenchanted youth is increasingly contrived (how old IS he by now?) and he repeats tired and obvious similes - 'life shattered like broken glass' on Fallen Idol, 'kicking through' that 'broken glass' again on Two Creatures... his musical phrasing is also pretty lumpen - no 'Two of Us' high notes here - letting the side down a bit. In the age of mp3s etc I reckon they should offer an alternative instrumental version... so four stars for Bernard, two for Brett. Oh and well played those three guys at the back, whoever you are!
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