Every Other Weekend’s debut single Come Back (When You Feel Like) feels like opening the door to a long-lost friend—one who’s been through a lot, lived to tell the tale, and somehow managed to turn the heaviness into something beautifully jangly and cathartic.
Chris Bull, once the voice of Manchester indie-rock outfit City Reign, is back after nearly a decade of silence. And he’s not just dropping a single—he’s resurfacing with a whole new project, a whole new chapter, and a whole lot of emotional weight behind it.
The track is the opening to his upcoming album All Present and Inept, a body of work that’s been quietly forming for seven years. And you can feel that time in the songwriting—this isn’t a rushed comeback, it’s a slow burn built from loss, grief, loneliness, and eventually, the rediscovery of joy.
City Reign’s final album Dasein was completed in the shadow of Bull’s father’s cancer diagnosis, and his passing in 2015 shut down the creative spark completely. Bull describes the years that followed as a “quiet and private depression,” and honestly, knowing that gives this comeback single even more emotional gravity.
But by 2017, living alone after a separation, he found himself recording voice notes—tiny scraps of hummed melodies and half-thought lyrics that eventually sparked something alive again. And Come Back (When You Feel Like) is the sound of that creative pulse returning.
Recorded in his mother’s garage on his father’s old equipment, the song is an intimate homecoming. You get the full Chris Bull signature: clattering drums, jangly guitars, and introspective lyrics that sneak up on you with way more emotional force than you’re ready for.
Bull calls it “a hymn to self-forgiveness,” and it really does feel like that—gentle, accepting, hopeful. It’s a reminder that creativity doesn’t disappear; sometimes it just steps aside while we survive things. And when it returns? It does so on its own terms.
Come Back (When You Feel Like) is that return—quietly confident, emotionally grounded, and unmistakably him.
