MBV was a mixed bag of rarities and lost recordings from the mid-90s. 'allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! was basically Yanqui U.X.O. Part Deux. This Is Pil was a lukewarm mix of Second Edition (metal box) and That What Is Not. Tomorrow's Harvest feels like a midpoint between Geogaddi and The Campfire Headphase.

This seems to be the decade of the Big Comeback, and it's one disappointment after the other. All I can take out of this mess of seemingly money-starved ex-revolutionaries is Seefeel's Seefeel, from 2011. That one's one hell of a leftfield, unexpected turn of their classic sounds into something more guttural and, in my limited experience, unheard of. That, and The Knife's new album, which manages to combine the crafty yet catchy and mysterious pop of Silent Shout with the far out experimentation and heavy ambiance of their Tomorrow, In A Year collab, which I loved.

I have very little hope that Gorguts' new album will be clever enough to make a peak in the landscape. Same goes, sadly, for The Avalanches. And let's not even mention Daft Punk's absolutel wretch of a new album, eight albums in the making: Absolute crap. It's like Human After All minus the excitement and novelty. It's almost as embarrassing as Justice's AVD. Gorillaz's Plastic Beach is exciting and extremely welcome, but ultimately failed to offer something that'd be up to the challenge of a new decade. I still love it, though. As I love all of these releases. But it's a lukewarm love.

Have you been particularly impressed with a recent comeback, one that you would consider to be as essential and/or groundbreaking as their previous works?

Personally, and sadly, I would have preferred it fi all of these bands had called it a day back when they became silent. It's all just painfully clownish now.