Bill Fay was another comeback from a long long absence that's missing from the wiki list, but I can't say I listened to that album as much as his early works
― kites aren't fun (NickB), Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
One I just remembered: trumpeter-composer Jacques Coursil’s Minimal Brass, coming 34 years after his previous record (Black Suite). It’s a pretty amazing record; my first impression was that it sounded like a Miles/Gil collaboration where the only instrument is (overdubbed) trumpet.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:13 (three years ago) link
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm Not Here (2010, 16 years on from Spirits)
Good call, this was a really good record.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:19 (three years ago) link
the true winner of this is Scott Walker and Tilt though
― akm, Thursday, 19 November 2020 23:50 (three years ago) link
Chuck Berry, Chuck - released in 2017, his first album since 1979.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:19 (three years ago) link
listened to Syro this morning and it ruled, but I like Aerial even more
50 Words For Snow isn't a comeback so it doesn't count aiui
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Friday, 20 November 2020 00:53 (three years ago) link
Possessed's reunion album even if it was really just Jeff Becerra "and friends"
― Lover of Nixon (or LON for short) (Neanderthal), Friday, 20 November 2020 01:08 (three years ago) link
Stephen Fellows' album from this year should be on this list (last album is 1997)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 20 November 2020 01:27 (three years ago) link
hah putting Bjork on that list is kind of cheap
yeah, it was only 13 years between the self-titled and Gling-Gló
Not sure if Madness counts, as they did some shows (albeit partially under a different name) and released a covers album in 2005, but as for original material, they followed up 1999's Wonderful with The Liberty Of Norton Folgate in 2009 - arguably their best album.
imo The Dangermen Sessions album shouldn't count because it was intended to be released as The Dangermen, not Madness... but they never split up (again) in the '00s so probably not quite the same thing as is going on with most of these. Liberty Folgate is their best though.
Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008, 19 years on from Bulletproof Heart)
Great one.
Was the De La Soul comeback album (12 yrs) bad btw? I can't remember hearing it.
Only seven years between Are You In? and And The Anonymous Nobody. The former was better.
― @oneposter (💹) (sic), Friday, 20 November 2020 01:50 (three years ago) link
wild how I voted Black Messiah and it's my least favourite of his three albums
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 20 November 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
could os mutantes count too, that was a good record
― nxd, Friday, 20 November 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
You mean "I'm New Here" .. yeah this was a blatant omission on my part along with the Sleep record.
― octobeard, Sunday, 22 November 2020 08:26 (three years ago) link
Didn't Aphex Twin continue to release new music throughout the '00s and '10s under different aliases? Does it really count as a comeback, if he only didn't use that name for 10+ year s?
― Tuomas, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:27 (three years ago) link
Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008, 19 years on from Bulletproof Heart) Great one.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 22 November 2020 10:30 (three years ago) link
please add to thread the new charles webster https://charleswebster.bandcamp.com/album/decision-time
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
None of the albums in this poll supersede the artist's previous work except Third
Would have voted The Drift or I'm New Here-- the latter isn't superior but is such a wonderful departure/final statement
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:26 (three years ago) link
re Aphex - nearly all of the other musicians here also released music under other names in between too; Slowdive, MBV, ATCQ, Swans, Portishead for sure.
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:32 (three years ago) link
Third is going to walk this. #1 in our noughties poll.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 15:33 (three years ago) link
and it wasn't really a comeback, they never officially split?
― imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
it is v good but def overrated here. we really, really love misery
― imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
‘Comeback’ is used veeeeeery loosely itt anyway so let’s just disregard that detail.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
Not enough imo.xp
― pomenitul, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:03 (three years ago) link
i wonder what the most truly miserable album i love is
― imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
oh lol, 'through silver in blood'
― imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
i mean do you need to split to have a comeback or isn't it possible to come back from dormancy
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
weird hangups itt
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, November 22, 2020 8:32 AM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
lmao at this post
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
but also it's nine years between the last analord-related release and syro, and seven years between the tuss and syro, idk feels like a long break for a dude that prolific
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:27 (three years ago) link
I would've included The Go-Betweens.
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
i guess that's at odds with the OP lol xp
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
hopefully everybody who votes for the rapist will tag themselves so we can get the FPs sorted
― Bandscamp Fryday (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
still think 'spoon and rafter' is a much better album than the latest slowdive
mind you there was 11 years between the last mojave 3 and the comeback so it's still valid
― imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
and seeing as i just listened to the just-released piano version of The Sophtware Slump, Grandaddy did an 11-year comeback album in 2017 that was pretty good actually
― imago, Sunday, 22 November 2020 16:43 (three years ago) link
I also think the Black Hearted Brother album is better than Slowdive s/t. Though "Sugar for the Pill" comes closer to an "Alison" type moment.
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
Would like to amend my "Something else" vote to Belly / Neneh Cherry / Chameleons / Go-Betweens (tie)
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 22 November 2020 19:58 (three years ago) link
and it wasn't really a comeback, they never officially split?yeah comeback /= reunion
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:11 (three years ago) link
there are lots of things to come back from. the store, a walk... an appointment
― swing out sister: live in new donk city (geoffreyess), Sunday, 22 November 2020 20:17 (three years ago) link
being here for years
― huge rant (sic), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
not mentioned yet: Bark Psychosis with Codename: Dustsucker and Brendan Perry, who did it twice! Ark was 10 years after Eye of the Hunter, and his new one is ten years after Ark.
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
(answer is still Aerial though)
Psychedelic Furs!
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 November 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
The new Furs album is very good but I'd still pick Slowdive over it.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 23 November 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 14 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Voted Portishead, but just wanted to highlight the following comeback albums from 2015 (in Veruca Salt's case, a comeback of the original lineup as the previous decade's output had pretty much been Louise Post solo):
Veruca Salt - Ghost NotesSleater-Kinney - No Cities to LoveFailure - The Heart is a Monster
― peace, man, Monday, 14 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Excellent results - sticking by my 'other' Mission Of Burma vote though, even though it's 'Obliterati' where they hit stride.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
i want to live in the alternate reality that you guys live in where black messiah wasn't terrible to the brink of embarrassment.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
Austin i like you lots but get the fuck out with that
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
the fuck
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Didn't see this in time and have not heard all listed or later mentioned but would have voted either A Tribe or write-in for xpost Sleater-Kinney.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link