Every Other Weekend gave 90s indie a place in 2025’s psyche with Come Back (When You Feel Like It)
The reign of City Reign may have ended, but the flame of Chris Bull’s creativity never flickered out. It smouldered until it could spark into something altogether more vulnerable and reverent in Come Back (When You Feel Like It), the debut single from Every Other Weekend, Bull’s long-awaited return to music. Recorded in his mother’s garage on his late father’s old equipment, with the help of Mick Morrison, the track serves as a quiet hymn to self-forgiveness and the tentative resurrections of joy that follow years of silence. The patience of longing becomes a love song in itself through Bull’s unfiltered vocals and jangling melodic instinct. College radio rock textures thrum underneath, defiantly nostalgic without tipping into throwback territory. Come Back (When You Feel Like It) occupies the sweet spot between the hues of R.E.M., the swirling warmth of Inspiral Carpets, and the earnest ache of Psychedelic Furs, yet it never leans on imitation. The single is the first release from the upcoming album All Present and Inept, which has been seven years in the making, growing slowly out of voice notes and grief-scrawled lyrics after the death of Bull’s father and a period of isolation that followed a marriage […] The post Every Other Weekend gave 90s indie a place in 2025’s psyche with Come Back (When You Feel Like It) appeared first on A&R Factory.
The reign of City Reign may have ended, but the flame of Chris Bull’s creativity never flickered out. It smouldered until it could spark into something altogether more vulnerable and reverent in Come Back (When You Feel Like It), the debut single from Every Other Weekend, Bull’s long-awaited return to music. Recorded in his mother’s garage on his late father’s old equipment, with the help of Mick Morrison, the track serves as a quiet hymn to self-forgiveness and the tentative resurrections of joy that follow years of silence. The patience of longing becomes a love song in itself through Bull’s unfiltered vocals and jangling melodic instinct. College radio rock textures thrum underneath, defiantly nostalgic without tipping into throwback territory. Come Back (When You Feel Like It) occupies the sweet spot between the hues of R.E.M., the swirling warmth of Inspiral Carpets, and the earnest ache of Psychedelic Furs, yet it never leans on imitation. The single is the first release from the upcoming album All Present and Inept, which has been seven years in the making, growing slowly out of voice notes and grief-scrawled lyrics after the death of Bull’s father and a period of isolation that followed a marriage […]
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