The 15 Most Agonizing Waits Between Albums
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Revisiting the delays
Country-pop icon Shania Twain returns Friday with NOW, her first album in 15 years. Last week, Fergie ended an 11-year solo absence of her own when she released her second LP, Double Dutchess. Hiatuses like these put "long" gaps like the one Frank Ocean ended with 2016's Blonde in perspective. Read on for more of the most agonizing waits between albums.
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Shania Twain's NOW (2017)
Released 15 years after 2002's Up!
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Dr. Dre's Compton (2015)
Released 16 years after 1999's 2001
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D'Angelo's Black Messiah (2014)
Released 14 years after 2000's Voodoo
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My Bloody Valentine's m b v (2013)
Released 22 years after 1991's Loveless
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A Tribe Called Quest's We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service (2016)
Released 18 years after 1998's The Love Movement
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Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy (2008)
Released 15 years after 1993's "The Spaghetti Incident?"
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Steely Dan's Two Against Nature (2000)
Released 20 years after 1980's Gaucho
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The Avalanches' Wildflower (2016)
Released 16 years after 2000's Since I Left You
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Aphex Twin's Syro (2014)
Released 13 years after 2001's Drukqs
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Sleater-Kinney's No Cities to Love (2015)
Released 10 years after 2005's The Woods
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De La Soul's and the Anonymous Nobody (2016)
Released 12 years after 2004's The Grind Date
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Fergie's Double Dutchess (2017)
Released 11 years after 2006's The Dutchess
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Black Sabbath's 13 (2013)
Released 18 years after 1995's Forbidden
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The Rolling Stones' Blue & Lonesome (2016)
Released 11 years after 2005's A Bigger Bang
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David Bowie's The Next Day (2013)
Released 10 years after 2003's Reality