Here's a recipe for trouble for you: take one brief hiatus, add one abortive attempt to re-align trajectory, then just let things slide liberally for a couple more days, until everything's a little bit dusty. Time for a marathon, kids. If only I could somehow do this with a montage.
Let's kick things off with a Sunday song, and a question: is post-alternative a thing yet? If it isn't, it should be, and City of Ships could be in the running for poster child. Their latest record Ultraliminal often sounds like it could have come out in the nineties, but in a good way: things are fairly guitar-driven, though not necessarily super riffy; song structures are simplified-but-not-simple; a subtle melancholy recurs repeatedly throughout, like so much of the best early 'alternative'.
Have a listen to (and a watch of) "Alarm", the first of Ultraliminal's tracks to get the video treatment. It might not be the kind of heavy you came here looking for today, but it just might scratch a different itch for you.
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