The new album from Brit-Poppers Suede will have a decontructive, Brian Eno feel to it, according to the band's keyboardist and co-songwriter, Neil Codling.

"We [Codling, singer Brett Anderson and guitarist Richard Oakes] have brought finished demos and home recordings into the studio, with an eye to dismantling them and reassembling them in a completely different way," Codling said about Suede's fourth studio album (discounting the B-sides collection "Sci-Fi Lullabies") in the group's official magazine.

"Song structures, tunes, riffs and instrumentation have all been unceremoniously chopped and changed as part of the recording process."

This creative method, combined with a subtractive attitude to song elements, is not dissimilar to that used on their last studio album, 1996's "Coming Up".

"This whole process takes time -- the songs are all recorded as usual, but all the parts (drums, bass, guitar, etc.) are then fiddled with beyond recognition thanks to the magic of computers.

"Some of these parts are rerecorded as necessary and the process repeated until it's sounding right ... but fear not: the songs are still there -- it's just that the process that leads to the final version has changed."

With regards to the overall feel of the record, Codling stresses, "Reports in the music press of the new songs being 'even more pop than 'Coming Up' have been slightly wide of the mark."

Instead, Codling offers the band's recent cover of 'Poor Little Rich Girl', for the Noel Coward tribute album, as a good indication of the direction the band is taking. "It's still very much a song, but lightly grilled rather than burnt to a crisp."

The recording for the new Suede album, under the tutelage of producer Steve Osborne (Perfecto, Happy Mondays) and right-hand man Ben Hillier, is set to wrap at the end of January.

The album, tentatively titled either "She's In Fashion" or "Asbestos", is set for a spring release in the UK. A release date, according to Sony Canada, is still to be determined.