I can't get enough of Neil Young's 1995 minor work Mirror Ball, which is his 21st studio album. It took him and Pearl Jam (minus the vocalist) four days to record and it has a really pleasant, shoegaze-y tone to it that I wasn't expecting. Not very grunge at all, more like Whirr and Kurt Vile + one or two very slow and sparse Mercury Rev type tracks. All that and the drummer is going f***ing nuts the whole time

What other late-period albums from extremely prolific groups or artists do yall recc or listen to regularly

Did you really just refer to Eddie Vedder as “the vocalist”?

Also, if you count his work with Garfunkel, Graceland is Paul Simon’s 12th record so that’s definitely probably the best example you’ll get of a late career project thats great, considering it’s not only his best album but one of the best albums ever made.

Absolutely spitting Sherm

Blackstar obvious pick

if you’re counting solo + collabs then

Donda

I thought this album was gonna be the one talked about in op

Swans - To Be Kind, their 13th studio album and top 2 in their discography

Damn a Whirr mention

Was not expecting that

KD Series + Magic

Such a great return to form after all of the 80s garbage

dam i love me some Whirr gonna peep

Joni Mitchell never lies

Exactly the type of album I'm looking for, artists who spent a whole decade dropping trash come back and prove they didn't lose it

Nas - King's Disease 2

Nas - Magic

Tech N9ne - Special Effects

Tech N9ne - Asin9ne

Kanye West - Donda

E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift

E-40 - Revenue Retrievin': Graveyard Shift

Bizzy Bone - Carbon Monoxide

Bizzy Bone - The Mantra

Kate bush - aerial
Xtc - apple venus volume 1

Yeah she never lost it, her label was on some f*** s*** since Mingus (1979) was mostly a commercial failure

Future - WIZRD

4nem

But you don't know what you got till it's gone

Weezer White album

Elizabeth Fraser (cocteau twins singer) put out an ep this year with Damon Reece and its beautiful

the 2nd half of this is sick