Recent comeback album poll (post 2000)

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.

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.

And not that I'm not hermity, but doesn't mean I want (all *that* much) sonic mirroring.

I say, as I sit here w headphones on, typing again.

You should be embarrassed of that take Austin lol wtf

third still absolutely stuns me every time, sometimes I think it's the best album ever

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

Love you Austin but on this score you're RONG.

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.