Recent comeback album poll (post 2000)

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.