could os mutantes count too, that was a good record
― nxd, Friday, 20 November 2020 14:11 (three years ago) link
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm Not Here (2010, 16 years on from Spirits)
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
Went back and re-listened to all known-by-Spotify D'Angelo-inclusive tracks in the lead-up to release of Black Messiah, but something a little too hermity about his approach to win over A Tribe or Sleater-Kinney. Not that I had any prob listening to any of his.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
And not that I'm not hermity, but doesn't mean I want (all *that* much) sonic mirroring.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
I say, as I sit here w headphones on, typing again.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
You should be embarrassed of that take Austin lol wtf
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
third still absolutely stuns me every time, sometimes I think it's the best album ever
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
Love you Austin but on this score you're RONG.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
not sure I think of all of these as comebacks, but Third, m b v, Black Messiah, Aerial and Syro are all great albums, and maybe the others are too
― Dan S, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
Not loving it I might be able to see, but "terrible to the brink of embarrassment" no less lol
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link
The first three songs on Black Messiah attempt this Prince-with-Bowie-production thing that I'm not into at all tbh, but I love the rest of the album iirc
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
the second track is heavy as hell!
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link