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Also, I think Tribe has successfully passed the Portishead test.
As far as I'm concerned, Portishead's Third is the gold standard for "reunion" alums, as it held onto the best bits of that extraordinary band's dynamic from their first two albums, but also veered into brand new, completely forward-thinking territory, and actually ended up being BETTER than their absolutely essential debut and self-titled follow-up.
Tribe has done something similar. Not *quite* as big on reinvention of course, and definitely not better (yet) than Midnight Marauders or Low End Theory, but the new album looks forward and pays homage to the past at the same time while managing to sound utterly fresh and downright necessary for the times we live in.
The album's only a week old, but I already rank it alongside D'Angelo's Black Messiah and Aphex Twin's SYRO... above My Bloody Valentine's m b v, and Mission of Burma's OnOffOn (if still below Third) on the hierarchy of "comeback" albums (for lack of a better word.)
It's simply the tits, and about that we can agree.
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