Recent comeback album poll (post 2000)

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

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.

Gil Scott-Heron - I'm Not Here (2010, 16 years on from Spirits)

Good call, this was a really good record.

the true winner of this is Scott Walker and Tilt though

Chuck Berry, Chuck - released in 2017, his first album since 1979.

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

Possessed's reunion album even if it was really just Jeff Becerra "and friends"

Stephen Fellows' album from this year should be on this list (last album is 1997)

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.

wild how I voted Black Messiah and it's my least favourite of his three albums

could os mutantes count too, that was a good record

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.

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?

Grace Jones - Hurricane (2008, 19 years on from Bulletproof Heart)

Great one.

please add to thread the new charles webster https://charleswebster.bandcamp.com/album/decision-time

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

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.

Third is going to walk this. #1 in our noughties poll.

and it wasn't really a comeback, they never officially split?

it is v good but def overrated here. we really, really love misery

‘Comeback’ is used veeeeeery loosely itt anyway so let’s just disregard that detail.

Not enough imo.

xp

i wonder what the most truly miserable album i love is

oh lol, 'through silver in blood'

i mean do you need to split to have a comeback or isn't it possible to come back from dormancy

weird hangups itt

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.

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lmao at this post

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

I would've included The Go-Betweens.

i guess that's at odds with the OP lol xp

hopefully everybody who votes for the rapist will tag themselves so we can get the FPs sorted

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

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

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.

Would like to amend my "Something else" vote to Belly / Neneh Cherry / Chameleons / Go-Betweens (tie)

and it wasn't really a comeback, they never officially split?

yeah comeback /= reunion

there are lots of things to come back from. the store, a walk... an appointment

being here for years

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.

(answer is still Aerial though)

Psychedelic Furs!

The new Furs album is very good but I'd still pick Slowdive over it.

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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 Notes
Sleater-Kinney - No Cities to Love
Failure - The Heart is a Monster

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Excellent results - sticking by my 'other' Mission Of Burma vote though, even though it's 'Obliterati' where they hit stride.

i want to live in the alternate reality that you guys live in where black messiah wasn't terrible to the brink of embarrassment.

Austin i like you lots but get the fuck out with that

the fuck

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.