Modern Classics?

Whitecat

So many +1s for 'Funeral' and 'Illinoise'...

Will add -

Doves - Last Broadcast
The National - High Violet (as people are saying, could be almost any of their records though)
Low - Double Negative
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away (Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus gets an honourable mention tho)
Public Service Broadcasting - The Race For Space
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Elbow - Asleep In The Back

guitarfishbay

For a recent one: Ghost - Prequelle

stimpsonslostson

Gallows- Grey Britain

I agree about Jane Doe and Crack the Skye. 

Reverend

Warning- Watching from a distance. The best doom album of the last 20 years. 
Drudkh  - Autumn Aurora 
Mgla - With Hearts Towards None
Tau Cross st
Tragedy - Vengeance 

munckee

The strokes -  is this it
first aid kit - the lion roars
the libertines - Up. The bracket
anything by sigur ros. 

historyisjunk

For something to be a "classic" does it need to be reasonably well known?

I dunno, but here's 2 lists

Reasonably well known-

Lucinda Williams- Essence

Lucinda Williams- World Without Tears

Kathleen Edwards- Back To Me

Chris Knight- Enough Rope

Calexico- Carried To Dust

Savages- Silence Yourself

Jeff Beck- You Had It Coming   

Jeff Beck- Jeff

I suspect I'm not a "real" Jeff Beck fan as I don't appreciate the 70's classics, but the fact that he was able to make these innovative records with a huge techno like sound to them knocked me out.

Probably of limited interest...

Grandpa Boy (Paul Westerberg) Dead Man Shake.

Barn Owl- Lost In the Glare

Bardo Pond- Peace On Venus

Alasehir- Sharing The Sacred

roberty

Courtney Barnett - sometimes I sit and think and sometimes I just sit
Ghostface Killah and BadBadNotGood - sour soul

Two that come to mind

joetele

And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Bon Iver - Bon Iver (2nd album) 
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Caspian - Waking Season
Radiohead - In Rainbows
65 Days of Static - Wild Light
Dilated Peoples - Expansion Team
Enemies - Valuables
Deafheaven - Sunbather
The Field - Looping State of Mind
Tycho - Dive
The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl
Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
The Bronx - The Bronx (III)
Warpaint - The Fool

And no, it's not just a list of some of my favourite albums. It's ones that genuinely feels like some of the band's best work, that captured the moment with fans and new listeners alike, that regularly are hailed as their best work. 

ICBM

historyisjunk said:

Lucinda Williams- Essence

Lucinda Williams- World Without Tears

I think Car Wheels On A Gravel Road would be the one most people know as her 'classic' album (although they're all good).

historyisjunk said:

Kathleen Edwards- Back To Me

That's a brilliant album.

historyisjunk said:

Calexico- Carried To Dust

Also great, but I think Feast Of Wire is their best.

Dopesick

Opeth - Blackwater Park

Torche - Meanderthal

Cave In - Jupiter

Converge - Jane Doe

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Fantomas - Directors Cut

Fuengi

Push The Sky Away by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

MagicPigDetective

Two more; Iron and Wine: Our endless numbered days and Fleet Foxes' 1st album.  

joetele

MagicPigDetective said:

Two more; Iron and Wine: Our endless numbered days and Fleet Foxes' 1st album.  

Yep, wish I'd mentioned these in my list too

munckee

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to tell.

joetele

munckee said:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to tell.

Oh Christ YES! 

historyisjunk

historyisjunk said:

Lucinda Williams- Essence

Lucinda Williams- World Without Tears

"I think Car Wheels On A Gravel Road would be the one most people know as her 'classic' album (although they're all good)."

@ICBM
I know, I didn't mention that one though, as it's 1998, I think, & was trying to keep it post 2000. Those three & the live at the Fillmore  album are an amazing body of work just on their own.

JD50

Fantasma - Cornelius (ok this was the 90's )

Interpol - Turn on the bright lights

The Horrors - Primary Colours

Blonde Redhead - 21

Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust

Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin

thecolourbox

joetele said:

munckee said:

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Fever to tell.

Oh Christ YES! 

Double yes, I for one have never really got past trying to sound like the guitar on that. Not a bad song on there

TTBZ

Great shouts on Crack The Skye and Songs For The Deaf

White Stripes - White Blood Cells/Elephant
Gallows - Orchestra of Wolves 
Slipknot - Iowa

ICBM

historyisjunk said:

@ICBM

I know, I didn't mention that one though, as it's 1998, I think, & was trying to keep it post 2000. Those three & the live at the Fillmore  album are an amazing body of work just on their own.

Yes, you're right - '98. Time flies...

I was also trying to avoid ones that are too recent since they probably aren't 'classics' yet, but Marianne Faithfull's Give My Love To London will be. Almost certainly the best thing she's ever done, and I'm not forgetting Broken English in that.