Bands/Artists who've released GREAT albums 30+ years into their career

Boards of Canada - Inferno (40 years in)
David Bowie - Blackstar (54 years in)

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HUM - Inlet (31 years in)

4 Likes

Scott Walker - The Drift (41 years)

5 Likes

Bob Dylan - Time Out Of Mind (and some others that followed)

2 Likes

big Lenny C releasing You Want It Darker 50 years into his career, fucking dropping dead and then dropping Thanks For The Dance. unmatched

14 Likes

Lambchop - Punching The Clown (40 years)

2 Likes

John Cale - MERCY (60 years in). Seriously, give it a listen!

4 Likes

Coincidentally, I was listening to Graceland a day or so ago and was wondering whether that was the furthest an artist had been into their career to drop a record that could very easily be considered their best or most successful (in terms of sales/reception).

4 Likes

Nick Cave - Ghosteen

The Cure - Songs of a Lost World

2 Likes

Low just miss out by a year, shame

1 Like

Grant Hart - The Argument

1 Like

Robert Forster - Songs To Play (38 years after the Go-Betweens’ debut)

Converge formed in 1990 so both their albums this year could count.

2 Likes

Deftones - Private Music (37 years in)

2 Likes

Johnny Cash - American series (particularly fond of American IV myself)

4 Likes

My Bloody Valentine - mbv (30 years in)

4 Likes

Dinosaur (Jr). Knocking it out of the park since 1985.

2 Likes

Robert Wyatt - Shleep, 30-something years after he started playing with Soft Machine

3 Likes

Donald Fagen

Good one that.

1 Like