Recent comeback album poll (post 2000)

Hum, for instance. It’s a good ‘un, too.

Yep, absolutely. I've lived with it long enough now to comfortably consider it one of their best records. (22 years, 4 months, 27 days - for the uninitiated)

Voting Mission of Burma - ONoffON & Oblierati both pretty great.

The Pop Group or X.

Mix seems relevant:

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Various – ‘Late’
(2005-2019)

01 [0:00:00] David Bowie – “Lazarus” (‘Blackstar’ 2016)
02 [0:06:20] My Bloody Valentine – “In Another Way” (‘MBV’ 2013)
03 [0:11:50] Shelleyan Orphan – “Bodysighs” (‘We Have Everything…’ 2008)
04 [0:16:40] D’Angelo & The Vanguard – “The Charade” (‘Black Messiah’ 2014)
05 [0:19:50] Low – “Fly” (‘Double Negative’ 2018)
06 [0:25:35] Kate Bush – “Snowflake” (’50 Words for Snow’ 2011)
07 [0:35:15] Nick Cave – “Jubilee Street” (‘Push The Sky Away’ 2013)
08 [0:41:35] Sam Phillips – “So Close” (‘World On Sticks’ 2018)
09 [0:45:00] Flaming Lips – “Turning VIolent” (‘The Terror’ 2013)
10 [0:49:15] Portishead – “The Rip” (‘Third’ 2008)
11 [0:53:40] Mazzy Star – “Seasons Of Your Day” (‘Seasons Of Your Day’ 2013)

12 [0:57:15] Bjork – “Black Lake” (‘Vulnicura’ 2015)
13 [1:07:25] Daft Punk – “Motherboard” (‘Random Access Memories’ 2013)
14 [1:13:00] A Tribe Called Quest – “Conrad Tokyo” (‘We Got It From Here’ 2016)
15 [1:16:30] Beck – “Defriended” (‘Defriended’ EP 2013)
16 [1:20:25] Cavern of Anti-Matter – “Kool Boy Narcosis” (‘Blood-Drums’ 2013)
17 [1:23:20] Neneh Cherry – “Soldier” (‘Broken Politics’ 2018)
18 [1:27:40] Rustin Man – “Our Tomorrow” (‘Drift Code’ 2019)
19 [1:32:15] Nine Horses – “Wonderful World” (‘Snow Borne Sorrow’ 2005)
20 [1:38:10] Erykah Badu – “Hello” (‘But You Cain’t Use My Phone’ 2015)
21 [1:43:15] Slowdive – “Falling Ashes” (‘Slowdive’ 2017)
22 [1:51:10] Radiohead – “True Love Waits” (‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ 2016)

[Total Time: 1:55:43]

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aerial is my favourite of those but slowdive, third, black messiah, and we got it from here are all excellent too

from the wiki list i hadn't realised that inlet was a slightly bigger gap than slowdive. that's great too

No Coast by Braid is one of the only comeback albums I like, although Third is really good. But Braid actually announced a breakup/final show before the interim between Frame & Canvas and No Coast.

Definitely voting for D'Angelo, given the options presented. I really find the love for that Tribe album baffling.

Some of these are really good, but it feels like hardly any of them left any cultural footprint. They came out, everyone discussed them online for a day or so, then that was it.

That's how it seemed to me anyway, especially the MBV and Aphex records.

I still listen to m b v regularly and it absolutely bangs

I enjoyed several of these but Black Messiah stands out

anyone else itt prefer 50 words for snow to aerial?

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Has anyone itt mentioned At The Drive-In yet? Because in•ter a•li•a delivered exactly what I wanted from a new ATDI album in 2017

Hey Octo, thanks for doing this poll! I'm still going with Slowdive but Wire is tough competition. And it depends on what we're looking at - just LPs or do EPs count too? Cause they released an amazing 1997 EP, "Vien", which was smack in the middle between the Wir album and "Send".

oh yeah no coast is fucking amazing

i listened to syro today and it's totally my favorite aphex twin record after the first saw. it slaps

often makes me wanna do the robot in public

Portishead

i listened to syro today and it's totally my favorite aphex twin record after the first saw. it slaps

I picked Third. Still listen to it all the time. It was between that, D'Angelo and Tribe for me

No The Drift? I suppose it was more or less on schedule at 11 years rather than being a comeback album in the same sense as some of the others.

Of those I've heard on the list, m b v. That album has a special power to induce good feelings.

Black Messiah is the only comeback album I like more than the earlier material.

Black Messiah is the only comeback album I like more than the earlier material.

Black Messiah is the only comeback album I like more than the earlier material.

wait....Low??

I like that album but I don't think they've released a bad one

Third long ago cemented itself as one of the albums that defines me as me in some way, so it's an easy vote. But Tribe and D'Angelo are not far behind.

wait....Low??

Low never stopped releasing records... Double Negative just was so good on its own that it made you forget the albums leading up to it, I guess?

An artist who was very close to being in this list, and arguably should be in it if we're shortening the gap from 10 years to 8 is Fiona Apple

Hey Octo, thanks for doing this poll! I'm still going with Slowdive but Wire is tough competition. And it depends on what we're looking at - just LPs or do EPs count too? Cause they released an amazing 1997 EP, "Vien", which was smack in the middle between the Wir album and "Send".

Totally fair - would have thrown in the Read and Burn EPs if they hadn't put out Vien, which is too long ago for this poll (post 2000 comebacks), but definitely worthy of discussion!

This list is absolutely abbreviated and missing a number of worthwhile picks. Mostly happy there's at least a thread to encapsulate this discussion as it has spilled into multiple threads in the past (and the Slowdive one the other day) and there's been quite a few astonishingly good comeback records of late.

Portishead is the only album here where I'd argue it's their best work. Cherry Thing would be my "other" vote, and it's defiantly my favorite thing Neneh has done.

ended up voting slowdive and now i'm having voter's remorse. definitely should have gone with lookaftering or third.

Write-in for Carcass.

Scott Walker for both Tilt and Drift.

Some people might think it an odd or really bad example but I really love the third Comus album even though it's really an EP + one live archive track.

So many I want to hear, including Linda Perhacs.

Huge list
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/lastnightadjsavedmylife/your-ears-have-waited-follow-ups-10-years-later/

I am starting to think that solo artists shouldn't really be considered for this unless they fully withdraw from the biz, retire, etc

Some favourites of mine: Shed Seven - Instant Pleasures; Cast - Troubled Times and Blur - The Magic Whip (yeah, I got the impression that this one isn't very popular around here, but I love it)

But maybe I'll pick a more 'respectable' choice as my write-in: Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - History of Modern.

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.

Similar thing with Peter Gabriel: Up was released 10 years after Us, but he did the OVO project a couple of years earlier which resulted in an album as well.

voted for third
i liked the harvey milk return but not sure youd call it a comeback

Good selection. The Tribe album is good but it doesn't measure up to Low End or Midnight Mauraders to my ears. Of this list, Aerial, Third, and Black Messiah are the ones I've listened to the most. I don't know which one is my favorite. Second the recommendation for Suede's followup comeback album(s), they are excellent.

Oh have people stopped voting for Tribe?

It was nearly Portishead..

mbv and syro were both fine too but were more of the same. The above two albums were beyond.

I still love the Who’s Endless Wire, despite the production being so-so. The production is much improved on last year’s WHO, but the record sags a bit in the middle. Just because Townshend can write arena-ready anthems in his sleep doesn’t mean he should. But the beginning (“All This Music Must Fade”) and end (“She Rocked My World”) are stone classics.

Astonishingly, Daltrey sounds better on WHO than on anything — live or on record — since 1978.

Voted Tribe. One of my favorites of the 21st century.

I’ve said this before and got flack for it but m b v is their best album. Still not voting for it tho, given the competition.

Does that just mean you were never smitten with Loveless?

Celtic Frost - Monotheist

Are you loveless when it comes to the classic MBV?xp

Indeed I am. Or rather I only love about half of it.

Good shout.

2xp

Two more I liked a lot at least initially

Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008, 19 years on from Bulletproof Heart)
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm Not Here (2010, 16 years on from Spirits)

Was the De La Soul comeback album (12 yrs) bad btw? I can't remember hearing it.

Not bad and I think some people argued it was better than Tribe's but the latter really seemed to eclipse it dropping at pretty much the exact same time.

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

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

Not loving it I might be able to see, but "terrible to the brink of embarrassment" no less lol

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

the second track is heavy as hell!

like, heavier than I've ever heard from Bowie, but maybe I've not heard the heavy Bowie

It's more "Bowie production", the drums sound completely distinct from the D'Angelo universe otherwise, none of the tensile qualities. I'm not into those three tracks at all. Album obv gets amazing tho

Thanks everyone, I love you all too.

Black Messiah was very disappointing at the time. We listened to it twice and both times it very much felt like a chore to get through. Never revisited it since. Junior was a lot more harsh on it than Andy was; I just thought it was kind of plodding and tuneless, he said it sounded "like shitty Frank Zappa outtakes." Nobody is wrong or right, as I would be the first to say that we probably did not give the album a fair chance. Maybe we will again in the future, maybe we won't.

Am very happy Portishead won though, even if we did not vote for it.

it sounded "like shitty Frank Zappa outtakes." Nobody is wrong or right

um yeah i would say this opinion is wrong as fuck

please point me to the zappa song that sounds like "another life" or "the charade"

I can't believe I overlooked the nonstop tinkling marimbas when I was listening to Black Messiah. Truly, this thread has opened my eyes (and ears!).

Proof that opinions can be counterfactual.