The London Suede unleashed its fourth album, "Head Music," on these shores on Tuesday. The album has already enjoyed a stay at number one in the U.K., yet the group hasn't managed to break through in the U.S. on the scale of such early-'90s peers as Oasis and Blur.

"Head Music" is the first album the band has recorded without Ed Buller behind the boards, as the group tapped former Happy Mondays producer Steve Osborne for the disc. According to frontman Brett Anderson, the record takes a colder and less emotional approach than its predecessors, and it required a lot of fine-tuning in the studio.

"We were in there a lot," Anderson told MTV News, "but on the other hand, there was a lot of... programming and stuff like that that went on with the album as well, because we were trying to take it in slightly different directions from the first three. So it was a strange combination between the two. It was intense in places and laid-back in places, and the first couple of months we did nothing, sat around smoking--"

"Yeah," drummer Simon Gilbert interrupted. "And waiting for computers to be mended, etcetera." [RealVideo].

The first single is called "Electricity." Meanwhile, the band will release "She's In Fashion," the second single off the album, in the U.K. on June 14.